Joseph Campbell Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Dream, Business

• Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, World, Myth

• Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Expression, Realization

• The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Character, Civilization

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Encouraging, Dream, Sight

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Peculiar, Way

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 1949.

• I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Meditation, Heaven

• The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Dwelling, Insanity

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.5, New World Library

• The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Dream, Dreamer

  "The Power of Myth".

• The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Waiting, Machines

• Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Found You, Essentials

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.19, New World Library

• In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Absence, Pantheon

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.2, New World Library

• [M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Stories, Inspired

• Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Myth, Personalized

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.14, New World Library

• The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Views, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.70, New World Library

• One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Heart, Brain

  Joseph Campbell (2002). “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion”, p.19, New World Library

• It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

• The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Hero, Men

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.89, New World Library

• The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Moving, Dreamer

• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Doors, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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