Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
Joseph CampbellWhat we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
Joseph CampbellI always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.
Joseph CampbellI am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.
Joseph Campbell