For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
Joseph CampbellAnything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
Joseph CampbellPrivation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
Joseph CampbellThe hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
Joseph CampbellShe was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.
Joseph Campbell