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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Joseph Campbell
Past, Journey, Compassion

For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

Joseph Campbell
Heart, Destiny, Agony
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.

Joseph Campbell
Thinking, Cells, Wind
Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.52, New World Library

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Change, Fate
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Discovery, People
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

Joseph Campbell
Dream, Found You, Essentials
Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.19, New World Library

The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

Joseph Campbell
Ignorance, Love Is, Heaven
Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.107, New World Library

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Courage, Pain

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
Want, Resurrection, Crucifixion

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, World, Alive

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Joseph Campbell
Sublime, Experience
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.97, Joseph Campbell Foundation

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

Joseph Campbell
Ideas, Inward, Body
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.60, Anchor

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Following, Security

The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

Joseph Campbell
Goal, Energy, Riding

The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

Joseph Campbell
Warrior, Approach

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Art, Writing
Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.124, New World Library

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Faith, Have Faith
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.259, Anchor

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Dream, Business

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Positive
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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
Fear, Recovery, Adventure
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

Joseph Campbell
Hero Journey, Way, Realizing

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Joseph Campbell
Done, Waste, Shame

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

Joseph Campbell
Shining, Radiance, All Things
"The Power of Myth".

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, God, Devil
Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

Joseph Campbell
Work, Moving, Passion

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