The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. Joseph Campbell stresstimemorning When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment. Joseph Campbell yieldcuttingenergy It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world. Joseph Campbell kingsevilmen Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave. Joseph Campbell walladventurefall What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? Joseph Campbell bulbsvehiclelight The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world. Joseph Campbell sorrowinspirationalideas [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) Joseph Campbell radiancedesireinspirational If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed. Joseph Campbell crucifixionresurrectionwant Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. Joseph Campbell devilgodinspirational There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall. Joseph Campbell reaching-the-topladderswall Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light. Joseph Campbell resultslightevil The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization. Joseph Campbell integrityinspirationalfall Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role. Joseph Campbell uniformsinspirationalfather Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving. Joseph Campbell lifeorderdeath The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves? Joseph Campbell sickanimalmen Love your enemies, for they determine who you are. Joseph Campbell determinelove-youenemy Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. Joseph Campbell strongerpainlove-is Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? Joseph Campbell ethostechnologyinspirational The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement. Joseph Campbell recoveryfearadventure Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination. Joseph Campbell darkriversinspirational
