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• [M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Stories, Inspired

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• This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Reflection, Artist

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.12, New World Library

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• My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mind, Spheres, Senses

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.111, Anchor

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• Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Myth, Personalized

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.14, New World Library

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• Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Space

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Imagination, World

  Joseph Campbell (2007). “The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987”, p.16, New World Library

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• The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ideas, Sorrow

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• Every story you tell is your own story.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stories

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• The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Bliss, Eternity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.85, Anchor

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• This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Commitment, Fate

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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• Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Knowing, Boat

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

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

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• The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Mean, Smell

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• Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Hero, Adventure

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• Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Eternity, Follow Your Bliss

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• So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track.

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  Thinking, Track, Realization

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• Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Class, Parent, Our Society

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

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• It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Majority Rule, Democracy

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

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• [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Desire, Radiance

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.16, New World Library

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• Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Army, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.279, Anchor

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• In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences, there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which our brain is simply an organ. Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain is an organ of consciousness. It focuses consciousness and pulls it in and directs it through a time and space field. But the antecedent of that is the universal consciousness of which we are all just a part.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Space, Brain

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• The concept of time shuts off eternity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eternity, Concept Of Time, Concepts

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• Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

  Joseph Campbell

  Selfish, Roots, Desire

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• The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Compassion, Giving, Principles

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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