"Your ego is your embodiment and your..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
More by Joseph Campbell
“Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.”
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.”
“I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize”
More on Self
“Simple, like uncarved wood.”
“The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.”
“At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
More on Potential
“In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.”
“The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.”
“Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.”