What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
Joseph CampbellThe privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.
Joseph CampbellEvery religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
Joseph CampbellMythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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