The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Joseph Campbell
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The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply. When we see someone under tremendous pain and we wish to help them by offering our compassion, the initial feeling of sympathy may be overwhelming. However, when we imagine what someone is feeling, it can give us an internal push to get up and do something about it. It may be that such a person is capable of giving us more than we can give them. If we do not rise to the occasion, there is no telling how much potential great good may be lost.

Source: The Power Of Myth

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