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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
— Joseph Campbell
People can go very badly awry in this individual quest. But when the quest is fortunate, there comes a lifetime of creative innovative action.
— Joseph Campbell
Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.
— 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
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
— Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
— Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.
— Viggo Mortensen
Art brings out the grand lines of nature. Antione Bourdelle
— Joseph Campbell
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
— Joseph Campbell
Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
— Joseph Campbell
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
— Joseph Campbell
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.
— Joseph Campbell
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
— Joseph Campbell
Marriage ... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
— Joseph Campbell
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
— Joseph Campbell
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
— Joseph Campbell
The perfect human being is uninteresting. - Joseph Campbell
— Laura Greenwald
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
— Joseph Campbell
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.
— Joseph Campbell
We're all seeking ... the rapture of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
— Joseph Campbell
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
— Joseph Campbell
The influence of a vital being vitalizes.
— Joseph Campbell
You don't understand death, you learn to acquiesce in death.
— Joseph Campbell
The place to find is within yourself.
— Joseph Campbell
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
— Joseph Campbell
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
— Joseph Campbell
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
— Joseph Campbell
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
— Joseph Campbell
Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.
— Joseph Campbell
Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.
— Joseph Campbell
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
— Joseph Campbell
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
— Joseph Campbell
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil.
— Peter Dinklage
If you follow your bliss ... the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
— Joseph Campbell
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
— Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
— Joseph Campbell
Don't do anything that isn't play
— Joseph Campbell
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
— Joseph Campbell
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
— Joseph Campbell
The best we can do is lean towards the light.
— Joseph Campbell
The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.
— Joseph Campbell
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
— Joseph Campbell
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
— Joseph Campbell
A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.
— Joseph Campbell
Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
— Joseph Campbell
When you are falling
Dive! — Joseph Campbell
Dive! — Joseph Campbell
Don't think of what's being said, but of what's talking. Malice? Ignorance? Pride? Love? The goal of the hero's journey is yourself, finding yourself.
— Joseph Campbell
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
— Joseph Campbell
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.
— Joseph Campbell
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
— Christopher Nolan
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!
— Joseph Campbell
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
— Joseph Campbell
Everything starts with a story.
— Joseph Campbell
Hell is life drying up.
— Joseph Campbell
The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today.
— Joseph Campbell
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
— Joseph Campbell
The process of nature cannot be evil.
— Joseph Campbell
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
— Joseph Campbell
Suddenly you're ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you're alive and its spectacular.
— Joseph Campbell
Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.
— Joseph Campbell
If you are falling....dive.
— Joseph Campbell
I don't need faith. I have experience.
— Joseph Campbell
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
— Joseph Campbell
Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
— Joseph Campbell
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
— Joseph Campbell
You've got to find the force inside you.
— Joseph Campbell
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
— Robert Redford
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
— Joseph Campbell
A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
— Joseph Campbell
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
— Joseph Campbell
What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
— Joseph Campbell
Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
— Joseph Campbell
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
— Joseph Campbell
You have to learn to recognize your own depths.
— Joseph Campbell
The function of ritual ... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
— Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
— Joseph Campbell
Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
— Joseph Campbell
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
— Joseph Campbell
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
— Joseph Campbell
With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.
— Joseph Campbell
I don't believe in being interested in a subject just because it's said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.
— Joseph Campbell
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
— Joseph Campbell
How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
— Joseph Campbell
The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
— Joseph Campbell
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
— Joseph Campbell
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
— Joseph Campbell
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
— Joseph Campbell