“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
— Joseph Campbell“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”
— Joseph Campbell“You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.”
— Joseph Campbell“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
— Joseph Campbell“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
— Joseph Campbell“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”
— Joseph Campbell“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
— Joseph Campbell“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
— Joseph CampbellLove is a friendship set to music.
— Joseph Campbell