Joseph Campbell Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spring, Mistake, Fate

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.42, New World Library

• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Soul, Listening

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

• The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Soul, World

• You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

• The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, World, Requirements

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

• The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Artist, Soul

• The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dark, Night, Soul

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

• Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Dark, Rivers

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.15, New World Library

• The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, Language, Folktales

  Joseph Campbell (1969). “The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension”, HarperCollins Publishers

• The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Light, Soul

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.334, New World Library

• A temple is a landscape of the soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, Church, Landscape

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.101, Anchor

• The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Biblical, Discovery

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