Quote

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

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
Accepted
Contrary
Aspect
Experience
Death
Life
Affirmation
Unconditional

More quotes by Joseph Campbell

Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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
We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
Joseph Campbell
Image
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
Image
If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
Joseph Campbell
Image
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
Image
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
Joseph Campbell
Image
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)
Joseph Campbell
Image
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
Joseph Campbell
Image
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
Joseph Campbell
Image
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
Joseph Campbell
Image
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
Joseph Campbell
Image
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Joseph Campbell
Image
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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
Image
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
Joseph Campbell