Joseph Campbell

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Source: The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, 1988

From the Moyers conversations, in the exchange on eternity as a dimension of here-and-now rather than an afterlife destination. The wording matches the book transcript as I know it. This is one of the Campbell lines that is genuinely his and genuinely sourceable, unlike several others in this batch.

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We have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, 1949 (Prologue, "Myth and Dream")

A genuine and famous passage from The Hero with a Thousand Faces, closing the 'Myth and Dream' discussion in the Prologue. The wording — thread of the hero-path, abomination/God, slay ourselves, come to the center of our own existence, be with all the world — matches the text as I know it. High confidence on book and year; the section attribution is from memory and should be spot-checked against a copy before it is treated as a page-level citation.

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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.

Source: The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, 1988

From the 'follow your bliss' exchange with Moyers in The Power of Myth, where Campbell distinguishes outer-value achievement from the inner rapture of being alive. The spoken-transcript register fits, and the wording matches the book as I know it. Slightly below the top confidence band only because minor transcript variants of this line circulate.

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The two worlds, the divine and the human... are actually one. The realm of the gods is a forgotten dimension of the world we know.

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, 1949

I can place this in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in the discussion of 'Master of the Two Worlds' in the Return section. The fuller passage runs roughly: 'The two worlds, the divine and the human, can be pictured only as distinct from each other... Nevertheless -- and here is a great key to the understanding of myth and symbol -- the two kingdoms are actually one. The realm of the gods is a forgotten dimension of the world we know.' The quote as given is an accurate ellipsis of that passage. I cannot state a page number from memory.

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