Quotes from Joseph Campbell
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
- Joseph Campbell
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
- Joseph Campbell
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
- Joseph Campbell
Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
- Joseph Campbell
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
- Joseph Campbell
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.
- Joseph Campbell
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.
- Joseph Campbell
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
- Joseph Campbell
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.
- Joseph Campbell
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
- Joseph Campbell
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
- Joseph Campbell