938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

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.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

For Shinto, at root, is a religion not of sermons but of awe: which is a sentiment that may or may not produce words, but in either case goes beyond them.

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

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

What each must seek in his life was never on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience. Something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.