With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

— Joseph Campbell

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

— Joseph Campbell

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

— Joseph Campbell

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

— Joseph Campbell

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. Furthermore, you don't ask what the world means. Furthermore, you enjoy it. Furthermore, you don't ask what you mean. Furthermore, you enjoy it.

— Joseph Campbell

You enter the fores tat the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

— Joseph Campbell

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

— Joseph Campbell

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

— Joseph Campbell

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life--there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be.

— Joseph Campbell

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

— Joseph Campbell