The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally. Joseph Campbell stills Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind. Joseph Campbell childhoodcommunitychildren There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since. Joseph Campbell cuttingearsjesus Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations. Joseph Campbell motivationinspirationalchildren We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us Joseph Campbell permiteverydaylifetime Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth. Joseph Campbell earthmen In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. Joseph Campbell pantheonabsencedream Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free. Joseph Campbell passionriskmen The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word. Joseph Campbell churchfaith-in-godchristian The dance is the highest symbol of life itself. Joseph Campbell symbolshighest All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion. Joseph Campbell embracecompassioninspirational Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. Joseph Campbell yieldheartinspirational Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe. Joseph Campbell The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. Joseph Campbell lovableperfectworld The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time ... and it is the function of art to make that visible to you ... then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology. Joseph Campbell historicalartthinking 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 seaanimalwater Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make. Joseph Campbell fewerdifferencesdecision If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. Joseph Campbell wanthelpingworld Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. Joseph Campbell radianceshiningall-things The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong. Joseph Campbell truth-isfoundthinking
