Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFind a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLGods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLChange 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 CAMPBELLPeople forget facts, but they remember stories.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMidlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL