Joseph Campbell Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Sea, Water

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

• The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Games, Play

• 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

• There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.46, New World Library

• The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

  Joseph Campbell

  Water, Swim, Delight

• The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, Water, Swim

• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

• When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

  Joseph Campbell

  Rain, Origin Of Life, Icons

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.10, New World Library

• A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Air, Fire, Water

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.63, Anchor

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