Joseph Campbell Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Unique, Giving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.186, Anchor

• Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Order

• 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

• If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Giving, Want

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.17, Joseph Campbell Foundation

• Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

  Doors, Self, Track

• The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Taken, Adventure

• A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

  Joseph Campbell

  Women, Giving, Birth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.104, Anchor

• Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.

  Joseph Campbell

  Unique, Giving, Facts

• You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Giving, Dimensions

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.70, Anchor

• The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Pain, Giving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

• Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Giving, Miracle

• The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving, Depth, Way

  "Myths to Live By".

• The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Goal, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.49, New World Library

• What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Unique, People

• The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving, Heroic, Function

• Do what gives you bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving, Bliss

• Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Mean, Simplicity

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