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Exlpore more Self quotes
"I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!"
"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."
"When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror."
"Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience."
"What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you."
"If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds."
Explore more quotes by Joseph Campbell
"In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal."
"How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually."
"Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another."
"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."
"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?"
"Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It.""
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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