Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMidlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLEternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLChange the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL