Joseph Campbell quotes and words of wisdom

"The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn"t, you"ve got an adventure in the dark forest ahead of you."
Found in the topic Dream.

"We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
Found in the topic Life.

"I don"t have to have faith. I have experience."
Found in the topic Insults.

"The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as "the wasteland." The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer... It"s the world of people living inauthentic lives ? doing what they are supposed to do."
Found in the topic Authentic.

"The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life"s joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure ? fearlessness and achievement."
Found in the topic Death.

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."
Found in the topic Adventure.

"When you follow your bliss ... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn"t be a door for anyone else."
Found in the topic Door.

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
Found in the topic Computer.

"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that."
Found in the topic Find.

"Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don"t get it here, you won"t get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here"s the place to have the experience."
Found in the topic Eternity.

Interesting Quotes

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.Dwight D. Eisenhower - US general & Republican politician (1890 - 1969)

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.W. Somerset Maugham - English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)