Joseph Campbell Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Real, Mean

• The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Compassion, Keys, Feelings

• The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Compassion, Giving, Principles

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

• I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religious, Thinking, Compassion

• Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Successful, Compassion

• You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Compassion, Humanity

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell : Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, Harper San Francisco

• All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Compassion, Embrace

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Journey, Compassion

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