When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)
Joseph CampbellWe are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
Joseph CampbellIt is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
Joseph CampbellGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
Joseph CampbellWhen you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
Joseph CampbellYou are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
Joseph Campbell