Joseph Campbell Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Dimensions, Spirit

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.18, New World Library

• In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences, there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which our brain is simply an organ. Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain is an organ of consciousness. It focuses consciousness and pulls it in and directs it through a time and space field. But the antecedent of that is the universal consciousness of which we are all just a part.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Space, Brain

• Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

  Joseph Campbell

  Future, Past, Dimensions

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

• What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Numbers, Growth

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.83, Joseph Campbell Foundation

• 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

• The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Past, Men

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.14, New World Library

• But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Past

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library

• 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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