black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Afraid Yourself
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Fact Forget People Remember Story
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 CAMPBELL

Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
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 CAMPBELL

Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
Love 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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow Yourself
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Beyond Fact Information
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Demon Himself Man Tame World
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Hell Myself Need
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Best Conversation Understand
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Illumination Late Regret
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Joseph Campbell Quotes