If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick. Joseph Campbell messengers ego inspirational Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. Joseph Campbell doing-you recovery addiction The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell being-yourself appreciation inspirational Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell military motivational inspirational For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state. Joseph Campbell hero-journey self inspirational When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. Joseph Campbell moon country people You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules. Joseph Campbell knowing-who-you-are conditions miracle The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell spiritual inspirational life The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell starting-over change inspirational As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny. Joseph Campbell fate mistake spring Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life Joseph Campbell pain challenges opportunity Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a Joseph Campbell mythology ubiquity events Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps. Joseph Campbell dragons girl beautiful We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Joseph Campbell letting-go inspirational life Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbell space inspirational life If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all. Joseph Campbell spiritual doe heart Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are no gods. There are as many gods as there are people thinking about God. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve. Joseph Campbell avid people thinking The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. Joseph Campbell pain inspirational giving One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it.' Joseph Campbell dream brain heart A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell veterans-day inspiring life
