938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

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.

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

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.