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
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. – Joseph Campbell
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. – Joseph Campbell
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you dont get it here, you wont get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; heres the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell