Joseph Campbell

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#leadership

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#achieve #alive #associated #being #doing

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#transformation

Myth is what we call other people's religion. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#religion #religion

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#heaven #life #experience

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#every #facts #gets #interpreting #metaphorically

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#education #inspiring #education

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#myths #myth

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life

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 Campbell

#self-awareness #self-control #ego