God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell happiness inspirational life Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. Joseph Campbell change positive inspirational The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge. Joseph Campbell smell adventure mean All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is. Joseph Campbell sorrow evil joy If you have the guts to follow the risk...if one follows what I call one's "bliss" - the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life - doors will open up...if you follow your bliss, you'll have your bliss, whether you have money or not. Joseph Campbell bliss risk doors Don't do anything that isn't play Joseph Campbell nonviolent-communication communication play Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life Joseph Campbell improvement inspiration character Regrets are illuminations come too late. Joseph Campbell illumination regret inspirational The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself. Joseph Campbell creativity alive people You enter the forest at 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 hero-journey inspirational way Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. Joseph Campbell arriving inspirational life Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole. Joseph Campbell hero adventure children The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime. Joseph Campbell sublime experience I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing. Joseph Campbell compassion religious thinking Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Joseph Campbell encouraging inspirational life Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest. Joseph Campbell ubiquity quests vision The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention. Joseph Campbell knowing-who-you-are advise intention Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell happiness inspirational life There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message? Joseph Campbell atheist religious inspirational A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life. Joseph Campbell myth consciousness depth
