Joseph Campbell on god
Joseph Campbell94 quotes“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.”
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell 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 CampbellJoseph Campbell You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Muhammad AliMuhammad Ali I’m thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I’m thankful for the environment that he placed me.
EminemEminem The Lord has so much compassion, He involves Himself in our problems.
Pope FrancisPope Francis For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EuripidesEuripides I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.
Anne FrankAnne Frank Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we’ve done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.
Leonardo DiCaprioLeonardo DiCaprio In our darkest moments, when we sin or are disoriented, we always have an appointment with God.
Pope FrancisPope Francis
