Quotes about inspirational
inspirational art writing
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. Joseph Campbell
inspirational work doors
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. Joseph Campbell
inspirational giving want
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it. Joseph Campbell
inspirational dream business
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. Joseph Campbell
inspirational nice book
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. Joseph Campbell
inspirational crazy block
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. Joseph Campbell
inspirational commitment past
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 integrity fall
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization. Joseph Campbell
inspirational people important
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life spiritual
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell
inspirational want world
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor. Joseph Campbell
inspirational writing years
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come. Joseph Campbell
inspirational stories storytelling
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. Joseph Campbell
inspirational positive-thinking garden
God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah! Joseph Campbell
inspirational change fate
The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. Joseph Campbell
inspirational art organization
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life space
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life becoming
The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming. Joseph Campbell
inspirational realizing eternity
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90) Joseph Campbell
inspirational life letting-go
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Joseph Campbell
inspirational technology ethos
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes? Joseph Campbell
inspirational life happiness
Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell
inspirational self-improvement asking
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer. Joseph Campbell
inspirational being-yourself appreciation
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life change
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
inspirational life path
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. Joseph Campbell
inspirational moving self
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. Karl Rahner
inspirational letting-go book
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it Karl Popper
inspirational prayer house
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together. Mother Teresa
inspirational friendship mother
Peace begins with a smile. Mother Teresa
inspirational-love love-is punishment
To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light. Mother Teresa
inspirational kindness work
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. Mother Teresa
inspirational positive leadership
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Mother Teresa