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• Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity-my heavens, that's what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into the deepest aspects of inner space connects you with something that is the most vital for the outer realm.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Space, Political

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• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Thinking, Self

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Positive, Rest In Peace, Rip

  "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.

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• ‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

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  Inspirational, God, Faith

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

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  Vocabulary, Coercion, Reason

  Joseph Campbell (1968). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”

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• In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and absolutely beyond any such concept as of a merciful or wrathful personality, chooser of one people over another, comforter of folk who pray, and destroyer of those who do not. Such anthropomorphic attributions of human sentiments and thoughts to a mystery beyond thought is-from the point of view of Indian thought-a style of religion for children.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Views, Names

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.53, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

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  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Communication, Interesting

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hell is life drying up.

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  Hell

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

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  Growing, Moments, Great Things

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• It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

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  Inspirational, Military, Native American

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• I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Hero, Adventure

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• There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Bliss, Possibility, Fiasco

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.133, New World Library

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• In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

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  Way, Plenty, You Choose

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• The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Function

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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• The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Path, Wonderful, Pollen

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• Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

  Joseph Campbell

  Aztec, Faces, Life Is

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.160, Princeton University Press

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• Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

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  Wall, Fall, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

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• You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

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  Thinking, Different, Way

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• You are the Hero of your own Story.

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  Hero, Suspense Novels, Suspense

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• I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

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  Live Life, Thinking, Important

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth". TV Mini-Series, 1988.

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• Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

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  Inspirational, Baseball, Moving

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• The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Artist, Soul

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• Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

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  Life, Spiritual, Clue

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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