Quotes from Joseph Campbell
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
- Joseph Campbell
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
- Joseph Campbell
The warrior's approach is to say 'yes' to life: 'yes' to it all.
- Joseph Campbell
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
- Joseph Campbell
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
- Joseph Campbell
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
- Joseph Campbell
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
- Joseph Campbell
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
- Joseph Campbell
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
- Joseph Campbell
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
- Joseph Campbell
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
- Joseph Campbell
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
- Joseph Campbell