Joseph Campbell Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Heart, World

• You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, House, Mind

• Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heart, Trying

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.134, New World Library

• Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heart, Yield

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.19, New World Library

• We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Live Life, Heart

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

• One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Heart, Brain

  Joseph Campbell (2002). “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion”, p.19, New World Library

• I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Thinking, Ready

• For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Destiny, Agony

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

• What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Fiction, Made

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.73, New World Library

• The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Greek, Born

• If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Heart, Doe

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