No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
-
-
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Change 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 CAMPBELL -
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL -
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL