Joseph Campbell

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

Joseph Campbell

When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider’s nature. It’s instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive?

Joseph Campbell

When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

Joseph Campbell

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

When you get to be older, and the concerns of the day have all been attended to, and you turn to the inner life-well, if you don’t know where it is or what it is, you’ll be sorry.

Joseph Campbell

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

Joseph Campbell

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

Joseph Campbell

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

Joseph Campbell

You can keep an old tradition going only by renewing it in terms of current circumstances.

Joseph Campbell