Quote

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Joseph Campbell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
Follow
Realize
Realizing
Else
Someone
Going
Way
Potential

More quotes by Joseph Campbell

Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Everything starts with a story.
Joseph Campbell
Image
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.
Joseph Campbell
Image
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
Joseph Campbell
Image
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
Joseph Campbell
Image
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
Joseph Campbell
Image
If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.
Joseph Campbell
Image
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
Joseph Campbell
Image
Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
Joseph Campbell
Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
Joseph Campbell
Image
There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
Joseph Campbell
Image
There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
Joseph Campbell