Joseph Campbell Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spring, Mistake, Fate

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.42, New World Library

• Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

  Joseph Campbell

  Selfish, Roots, Desire

• When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Doors, Desire

• We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fear, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.134, Anchor

• What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure; 3-fear of loss; 4-desire for gain; 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise; 7-fear of disgrace; [and] 8-desire for fame.

  Joseph Campbell

  Karma, Buddhist, Pain

• [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Desire, Radiance

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.16, New World Library

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