938 Quotes by Joseph Campbell

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

I've heard youngsters use some of George Lucas' terms -- "the Force" and "the dark side." So it must be hitting somewhere. It's a good sound teaching, I would say.