We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Joseph CampbellLove 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. [...] But love bears all things. [...] Love itself is pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.
Joseph CampbellTags: love tales-of-love-and-marriage
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Joseph CampbellTags: inspiration motivation personal-transformation
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.
Joseph Campbell... all that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.
Joseph CampbellPerhaps 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... the All is everywhere, and anywhere may become the seat of power. Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of the savior and conduct the questing wanderer into the sanctum sanctorum of his own heart.
Joseph CampbellFollow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls
Joseph CampbellGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
Joseph CampbellThe 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.
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