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• Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Greek, Born

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• How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ego, Messengers

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

  Joseph Campbell

  Perfection, Made, Process

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

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• When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hands, Unseen, Helping

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  Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Technology, Civilization

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Poetry, Biographies

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.213, New World Library

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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

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

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• Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, World, Myth

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• We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Alive, Rapture, Seeking

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• We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Intuition, Depth, May

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Attitude, Sorrowful, Can't Change

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• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spirit, Prime, Function

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

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• The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Men, Two

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• Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

  Joseph Campbell

  Mind, Suffering

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.12, Anchor

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• The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Symbols, Highest

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.192, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, Language, Folktales

  Joseph Campbell (1969). “The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Intention, Advise

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• The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

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• Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Order

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• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

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

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• The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, World, Requirements

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

  Joseph Campbell

  Angel, Technology, Miracle

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, Anchor

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• The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

  Joseph Campbell

  Emotional, Hands, Horizon

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.43, New World Library

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• What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.

  Joseph Campbell

  Play, Universe

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