Joseph Campbell Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

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  Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

  Joseph Campbell

  Success, Jobs, Character

• All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

• We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Tunnels

  Sukhavati Magazine, 2002, reissued 2007.

• I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wise, Courage, Jobs

• The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Character, Civilization

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

• I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Meditation, Heaven

• Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Needs, Hell, Happens

• Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Army, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.279, Anchor

• Hell is life drying up.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hell

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

• Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Trying, Bliss, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

• The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Views, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.70, New World Library

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