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• What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

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  Fall, Unique, People

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• When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

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  Inspirational, Realizing, Eternity

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• If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

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  Life, Priorities, Firsts

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

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  Light, Bulbs, Vehicle

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.88, Anchor

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• Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

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  Circles, Generations, Tails

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• What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure; 3-fear of loss; 4-desire for gain; 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise; 7-fear of disgrace; [and] 8-desire for fame.

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  Karma, Buddhist, Pain

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• You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

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  Fall, Done, Knows

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• Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

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  Art, Shining, Radiance

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.134, Anchor

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• Don't do anything that isn't play

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  Communication, Play, Nonviolent Communication

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• A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

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  Hero, Dragons, Champion

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.289, New World Library

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• At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

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  Law, Survival, Firsts

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• Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

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  Differences, Decision, Fewer

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• I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

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  Heart, Thinking, Ready

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• Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

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  Play, Guy, Trying

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• I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

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  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.

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  Hero, Journey, Snakes

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• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

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  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.

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  Cutting, Yield, Energy

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• Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.

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  Dream, Expression, Realization

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• Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

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  Reality, True Identity, Unity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.138, Anchor

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• All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.

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  Men, Mind, Democracy

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.31, Anchor

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

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  Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

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• All religions are true but none are literal.

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  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Religion

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• Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

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  Inspirational, Dark, Rivers

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.15, New World Library

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• The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

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  Adventure, Firsts, Given

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