Quotes about inspirational
inspirational dark rivers
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination. Joseph Campbell
inspirational children motivation
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.
inspirational life unique
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
inspirational hero adventure
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...
inspirational way path
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
inspirational thinking people
I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
inspirational discovery people
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
inspirational people myth
Myth is what we call other people's religion.
inspirational compassion embrace
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
inspirational hero past
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.
inspirational ego messengers
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.
inspirational faith have-faith
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
inspirational men joy
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.
inspirational latin school
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
inspirational hero-journey way
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
inspirational true-friend mind-your-own-business
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
inspirational art people
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
inspirational hero tasks
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
inspirational school technology
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.
inspirational courage morning
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
inspirational children men
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
inspirational real light
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
inspirational secret lost
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
inspirational pain pleasure
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
inspirational life faith
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
inspirational hero-journey religion
All religions are true but none are literal.
inspirational military native-american
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
inspirational technology civilization
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
inspirational religious atheist
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?
inspirational time pain
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.
inspirational life arriving
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
inspirational heaven eternity
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
inspirational world alive
We save the world by being alive ourselves.