Joseph Campbell Quotes About Ego

Quotes about: Ego

• The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

• Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Wedding, Sacrifice

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

• The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Dragons, Ego

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.184, Anchor

• How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ego, Messengers

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

• Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Self, Voice

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

• Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, People, Ego

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

• Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Ego, World

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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