Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

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Quotes by Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"The fundamental human experience is that of compassion."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

"They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure."

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work