Joseph Campbell Quotes

The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it's doing. If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what's already there.

Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Life ,for eternal us,is now

Just remember, everything you are is.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.