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• When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

  Joseph Campbell

  Two, India, Guru

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• Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Children, Motivation

  Joseph Campbell (1976). “The Masks of God: Primitive mythology”

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• If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, World, Want

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• The process of nature cannot be evil.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Process

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Feelings, Attention

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

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• What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, School, Technology

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.11, Anchor

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• Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

  Joseph Campbell

  Song, People, Ears

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.107, Anchor

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• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

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• If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render...
  the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Artist, Radiance

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• At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Yoga, Space, Finding Yourself

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• This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

  Joseph Campbell

  Essentials, Realization, Body

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

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• We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Voice, Earth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Sunset, Mountain, Divinity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.258, Anchor

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• Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

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  Cancer, Life Is, What Is The Meaning Of Life

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.8, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

  Joseph Campbell

  Energy, Possibility, Release

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• Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

  Joseph Campbell

  Passion, Men, Risk

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• What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

  Joseph Campbell

  Communication, Thinking, Bliss

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.48, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Lying, Mind

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Doors, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

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  Realms, Heavenly, Relate

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• The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.50, New World Library

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• Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

  Joseph Campbell

  Ubiquity, Events, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell (1972). “Myths to live by”, Viking Pr

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• Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Real, People

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.8, New World Library

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• There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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