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Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities … Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the…
In Japan all things are Buddha things. All things are themselves the real. The fluid aspect of impermanence is itself the absolute state.
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man.
Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn’t matter what his name is.
If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it’s true. Myth is the penultimate truth.
You know, the virtue manager is the real curse of the modern world, I think. The one who’s got righteousness on his side and knows that everyone else is to be corrected.
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? ‘How many can say,’ asks the Aztec poet, ‘that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?’
What is the cause… of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in…
Life as an art and art as a game––as action for its own sake, without thought of gain or of loss, praise or blame––is the key, then, to the turning of living itself into a yoga, and art into the…
People ask me, “Do you have optimism about the world, about how terrible it is?” And I say, “Yes, it’s great the way it is”
I think it’s important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of… being helped by hidden hands? Campbell: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time—namely,…
We are the sensing organs of the Earth. We are the senses of the universe. We have it all right here within us. And the deities that we once thought were out there, we now know, were projected out of…
We must not understand apocalypse literally, not as some physical destruction and judgment of the world, or as something that is going to occur in the future. The kingdom is here; it does not come through expectation. One looks at…
The first condition, therefore, that any mythology must fulfill if it is to render life to modern lives is that of cleansing the doors of perception to the wonder, at once terrible and fascinating, of ourselves and of the universe…
I will participate in the game. It’s a wonderful, wonderful opera–except that it hurts.
The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience. Doubt comes in, and so forth.…
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated soul.