I am a collector of words

Words feed me, free me, comfort, uplift and heal me. I've been saving my favorites in books, handwritten over the years and thought that perhaps in sharing them, not only am I preserving them for myself, but perhaps others may also find healing in them as I have.
Showing posts with label Joseph Campbell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Campbell. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Meaning

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."
- Joseph Campbell

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Fear of Death

"The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy."  Joseph Campbell

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Happiness

"Happiness is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world."  Joseph Campbell

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Risk and Dreams

"But if a person has had the sense of the Call -- the feeling that there's an adventure for him -- and if he doesn't follow that, but remains in the society because it's safe and secure, then life dries up. If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens, opens, opens up all along the line. I feel that if one follows what I call one's "bliss" -- the thing that really gets you deep in your gut and that you feel is your life -- doors will open up. They do! They have in my life and they have in many lives that I know of." ~Joseph Campbell

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Mythology

"Mythology' is what we call someone else's religion." Joseph Campbell

Transformation

"What all myths have to deal with is transformation of consciousness.  You have been thinking one way.  You now have to think a different way.  Consciousness is transformed either by the trials themselves or by illuminating revelations.  Trials and revelations are what it's all about."   Joseph Campbell

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Death

"The secret cause of all suffering is mortality itself, which is the prime conditions of life.  It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed...The conquest of fear of death is the recovery of life's joy."  Joseph Campbell

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Life's Adventure

"We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.   The labyrinth is thoroughly known.   We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god.  And where we had thought to slay one another, we shall slay ourselves.   Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence.   And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world."   Joseph Campbell