"A bit of advice Given to a..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell

“For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.”

“The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”

“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.”

“What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”

“There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.”

“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance”

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”