Joseph Campbell Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Years, Play, Understanding

• When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, People, Understanding

  Joseph Campbell (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.53, New World Library

• I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.

  Joseph Campbell

  School, Thinking, Broken

• When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

  Joseph Campbell

  Understanding, Mind, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

• ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Communication, Interesting

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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