The world without spirit is a wasteland

People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who’s on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it’s alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

– Joseph Campbell

Love your fate no matter what

This is a very helpful insight in the dark moments:

“Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, ‘This is what I need.’ It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength is there.”

— Joseph Campbell

 

(Courtesy of Monica Cassani)

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The minute you take what the dictation of the time is, instead of
the dictation of your eternity, you have capitulated to the Devil,
and you´re in Hell.

– Joseph Campbell

As long as you take your idea for reality, Reality will shun you

Eternity is that dimension of “here and now” which thinking and time cuts out.

She:
Read and reread. Bit of a doozy isn’t it?

Even if I concede to this particular definition of eternity (which is very
one-dimensional if you really think about it), what I said originally still holds, eternity and/or reality is still a matter of perception. What you may view as liberating may prove to be confinement for another. Why restrict myself to just one reality when I may soar in my state of limbo, visiting different realities?

Me:
Aliveness has nothing to do with definitions. In fact, all definitions and conclusions kill Life.

WHEN THINKING IS IN CHARGE, everything becomes flat and
one-dimensional – be it “mundane” or “celestial”.

You take your Concept for the Reality we hereby refer to. After all, you say it yourself: eternity or reality is a matter of Perception…

Bad news: our perception is often false, because – again – what we know is not the reality per se, but the projection we hold as “reality”
Freedom, or, whatever genuinely liberating, can be a terrible blow to the conditioned mind, indeed, a threat for the already confined perception. After all, we love our confinements, we have put so much effort to raise these thick walls around us…

Mind loves its delusions, it likes to indulge in vacuous dreaming, taking its figments – its limbo as you call it – for “different” realities.

That´s what Mind does: it takes eternity for Fata Morgana, and ascribes Fata Morgana eternal existence.

Now, reality is incredibly dynamic; a many-leveled, subtle but poignant presence, but our very concepts and self-imposed restrictions, which can be termed as one word – Ego –, prevent us from this unmediated perception.

I cannot introduce you to “another” reality as long as your vessel is filled
to the brim.

You might not “believe” me, but give these lines at least the benefit of doubt 😉

What can a myth do for you?

Mythology is the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of Art, the inspirers of poetry.

To see Life as a poem and yourself participate in a poem is what the myth does for
you.

Joseph Campbell

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life

Eternity isn´t some “later time”.

Eternity isn´t a “long time”. 

Eternity has nothing to do with time.

Eternity is that dimension of Here and Now which thinking and time cuts out.

If you don´t get it here, you won´t get it anywhere.

Bravo mr Joseph Campbell!

What really counts

We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.

— Joseph Campbell

Sacred play

“The world is not condemned or shunned as a fall,
but voluntarily entered as a game or dance, wherein
the spirit plays.”

Joseph Campbell

I strongly recommend this post:

– http://ahoneybeesfoot.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/sacred-play/

To live in sacred space

…is to live in a symbolic environment
where spiritual life is possible,
where everything around you
speaks of exaltation of the spirit

Joseph Campbell

We’re in a freefall into future

We don’t know where we’re going.

Things are changing so fast, and always when you’re going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It’s a very interesting shift of perspective and that’s all it is… joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.”

– Joseph Campbell
(courtesy of http://underthebluedoor.org)