Joseph Campbell

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.

Joseph Campbell

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Joseph Campbell

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Joseph Campbell

The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.

Joseph Campbell

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.

Joseph Campbell

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

Joseph Campbell

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Joseph Campbell

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Joseph Campbell

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

Joseph Campbell