Quotes from Joseph Campbell

The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.

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.

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

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.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

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.