Top 552 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Campbell - Page 10

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Do what gives you bliss.
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans. — © Joseph Campbell
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.
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.
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?
The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
When you are falling --- Dive!
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