If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIt’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’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 CAMPBELLApocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe 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. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLArt is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL