Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk) — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The secret cause of all suffering,” he said, “is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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