Joseph Campbell Quotes about Giving

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You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you

You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

Joseph Campbell

Thinking, Giving, Dimensions

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.70, Anchor

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

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Pain, Giving

Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Giving, Want

Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.17, Joseph Campbell Foundation

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

Joseph Campbell

Believe, Unique, Giving

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.186, Anchor

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

Joseph Campbell

Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Joseph Campbell

Women, Giving, Birth

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.104, Anchor

The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Joseph Campbell

Compassion, Giving, Principles

Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com