But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.
Joseph CampbellMyth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Joseph CampbellI think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
Joseph CampbellThe goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph CampbellThe first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
Joseph Campbell