There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
Joseph CampbellIf you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
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 happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.
Joseph Campbell