Quotes from Joseph Campbell

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

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

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

Don't do anything that isn't play

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

A hero ventures forth from the worldof common day into a region ofsupernatural wonder. Fabulous forcesare there encountered and a decisivevictory is won.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

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.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.