Joseph Campbell Inspirational Quotes (296)

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

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.