Quotes about inspirational
inspirational real light
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. Joseph Campbell
inspirational secret lost
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required. Joseph Campbell
inspirational pain pleasure
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life faith
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell
inspirational hero-journey religion
All religions are true but none are literal. Joseph Campbell
inspirational military native-american
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. Joseph Campbell
inspirational technology civilization
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell
inspirational religious atheist
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message? Joseph Campbell
inspirational time pain
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life arriving
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 heaven eternity
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience. Joseph Campbell
inspirational world alive
We save the world by being alive ourselves. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life motivational
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell
inspirational fall ifs
If you are falling....dive. Joseph Campbell
inspirational spiritual religious
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence. Joseph Campbell
inspirational fall gold
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. Joseph Campbell
inspirational regret hero-journey
Regrets are illuminations come too late. Joseph Campbell
inspirational motivational military
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell
inspirational moving order
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move. Joseph Campbell
inspirational fall tunnels
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 encouraging encouragement
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. Joseph Campbell
inspirational cancer names
"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is." Joseph Campbell
inspirational poetry biographies
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. Joseph Campbell
inspirational pain giving
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 life winter
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life inspiring
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. Joseph Campbell
inspirational god heaven
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Joseph Campbell
inspirational heart trying
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life strength
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life happiness
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
inspirational god devil
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward. Joseph Campbell
inspirational marriage affair
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) Joseph Campbell
inspirational desire radiance
[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