Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
Joseph CampbellWhen people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph CampbellThere is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that youโre on the wrong wall.
Joseph CampbellThe essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.
Joseph Campbell