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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Joseph Campbell
Rocks, World, Wave

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

At the darkest moment comes the light.

Joseph Campbell
Light, Bliss, Moments
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Joseph Campbell
Life, Darkness, Lost

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

Joseph Campbell
Giving Up, Mean, Simplicity

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
Inspirational, Change, Positive
Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.104, New World Library

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Joseph Campbell
Art, Wings, Entanglement

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Change, Starting Over
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Joseph Campbell
Food, People, Vegetarian

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.

Joseph Campbell
Unique, Giving, Facts

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero, Adventure
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Joseph Campbell
Artist, Perfection, Clumsiness

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
Inspirational, Life, Arriving

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

Joseph Campbell
Mean, Littles, Enthusiasm

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell
Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

It is within you that the divine lives.

Joseph Campbell
Love, Life, Divine

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Happiness

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Fall, Tunnels
Sukhavati Magazine, 2002, reissued 2007.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

Joseph Campbell
Motivational, Pain, Suffering

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Joseph Campbell
Mature, Authority

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, Miracle, Conditions
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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, Jobs, Perfect

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Way, Path

Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

Joseph Campbell
Needs, Hell, Happens

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