For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. Joseph Campbell self-improvement meaning-of-life inspirational Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves. Joseph Campbell wave rocks world Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming. Joseph Campbell vegetarian food people When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives. Joseph Campbell spiritual perfect jobs Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension. Joseph Campbell sunset inspirational people The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination. Joseph Campbell pain time inspirational Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.' Joseph Campbell hell happens needs Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. Joseph Campbell moments looks negative It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. Joseph Campbell guides creative hero Art is the clothing of a revelation Joseph Campbell art-is revelations art If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go. Joseph Campbell fixed ifs ideas If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping. Joseph Campbell invisible-hand path hands You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Joseph Campbell mature authority You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules Joseph Campbell fixed behinds creativity I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will. Joseph Campbell taken journey firsts The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming. Joseph Campbell god inspirational life If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. Joseph Campbell stories inspiring inspirational If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Joseph Campbell bliss careers inspirational If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth. Joseph Campbell eye somewhere-else thinking The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about. Joseph Campbell second-best thirds misunderstood
