Quotes from Joseph Campbell

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

It is within you that the divine lives.

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

Love is perfect kindness.

Love is exactly as strong as life.

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

When you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.