Quote

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.

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
Feelings
Grail
Found
Legends
Another
Finds
Keys
Sorrow
Compassion
Feeling
Suffering
Dynamo

More quotes by Joseph Campbell

Image
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
Joseph Campbell
Image
I don't need faith. I have experience.
Joseph Campbell
Image
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.
Joseph Campbell
Image
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.
Joseph Campbell
Image
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
Joseph Campbell
Image
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
Joseph Campbell
Image
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Joseph Campbell
Image
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
Joseph Campbell
Image
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
Joseph Campbell
Image
All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
Joseph Campbell
Image
You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Religon is misunderstood mythology
Joseph Campbell
Image
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
Joseph Campbell