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You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

Joseph Campbell

Christian, Kings, Believe

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

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The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.

Joseph Campbell

Hero, Eye, Two

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A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

Joseph Campbell

Old Things, Together Again, Elements

Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

Joseph Campbell

Art, Culture, Alive

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.72, Anchor

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In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

Joseph Campbell

Dream, Absence, Pantheon

Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.2, New World Library

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The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

Joseph Campbell

Animal, Men, Sick

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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, God, Thinking

Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.60, New World Library

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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

Joseph Campbell

Should Have, Should, Blisters

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For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Joseph Campbell

Men, Ordinary, Hometown

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Dream

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I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.

Joseph Campbell

School, Thinking, Broken

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The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

Joseph Campbell

Christian, Church, Faith In God

Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, God, Function

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.28, Anchor

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Love is exactly as strong as life.

Joseph Campbell

Strong, Love Is

Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.96, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

Joseph Campbell

Illumination, Solitude, Noble

Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.142, New World Library

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The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.

Joseph Campbell

Hero, Journey, Jewels

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For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

Joseph Campbell

Order, Brain, Quests

Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Humanity, Way

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.182, Anchor

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What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Artist, Inward

Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.190, New World Library

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Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Giving, Miracle

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A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Joseph Campbell

Definitions, Mythology, One Sentence

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Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

Marriage, Wedding, Sacrifice

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

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There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

Joseph Campbell

Hero, Night, Journey

Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.76, New World Library

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Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Self, Voice

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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Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

Joseph Campbell

Trying, Bliss, Stations

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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Died: October 30, 1987
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