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No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Finding Yourself, Mind

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Priorities, Firsts

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Spiritual, Clue

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Positive

TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Death, Order

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Bliss, Eternity

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.85, Anchor

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Dream

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Giving, Miracle

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Humanity, Way

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.182, Anchor

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Unique

Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Eye

Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.161, New World Library