Joseph Campbell Way Quotations

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind

You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

The insecure way is the secure way.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.