At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
Joseph CampbellWhen before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
Joseph CampbellWell, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.
Joseph CampbellMyths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.
Joseph CampbellMythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
Joseph CampbellThe heroโs journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, youโre in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, thatโs not been touched. So youโre at home here? Well, thereโs not enough of you there.' And so it starts.
Joseph Campbell