I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt is within you that the divine lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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There 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.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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