You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Joseph CampbellAnything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
Joseph CampbellApocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
Joseph CampbellThe myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.
Joseph Campbell