The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Joseph Campbell sorrowful cant-change attitude Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves. Joseph Campbell challenges lying world The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not. Joseph Campbell given adventure firsts How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. Joseph Campbell tasks hero inspirational I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.' Joseph Campbell blisters should should-have I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life. Joseph Campbell organization moving thinking The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. Joseph Campbell creative art moving When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image. Joseph Campbell mythology understanding mind Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life. Joseph Campbell true-identity unity reality Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. Joseph Campbell process perfection made The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears. Joseph Campbell yoga eye ideas When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. Joseph Campbell hero success inspiring Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it. Joseph Campbell stations bliss trying We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life. Joseph Campbell live-life spiritual heart The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. Joseph Campbell hero men past We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. Joseph Campbell individual groups needs Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere. Joseph Campbell follow-your-bliss eternity spiritual The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars. Joseph Campbell destiny stars men Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. Joseph Campbell wedding sacrifice marriage Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself. Joseph Campbell our-society parent class
