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• The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

  Joseph Campbell

  War, Two, Forever

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• Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.

  Joseph Campbell

  Secular Society, Long, May

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Thinking, Organization

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• The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Light, Oedipus

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

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• I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Children, Men

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

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• The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Latin, School

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• The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

  Joseph Campbell

  Yoga, Eye, Ideas

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• We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Live Life, Heart

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

  Joseph Campbell

  Groups, Needs, Individual

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.30, Anchor

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• There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Mind, Looks

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• The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Doubt, Atheism

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• Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.161, New World Library

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• The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

  Joseph Campbell

  Passion, Order, Storm

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.87, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Affirmation, Accepted, Aspect

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Mean, Men

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

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• Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiration, Names, Addiction

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.13, New World Library

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• I don't have faith, I have experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Have Faith

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• The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, Water, Swim

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• The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dancing, Atoms, Bombs

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• What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Imagination, Religion

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• There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Air, Together

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.146, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Men

  "Bios and Mythos".

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• He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Pride, Bows

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.89, New World Library

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• A temple is a landscape of the soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, Church, Landscape

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.101, Anchor

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• How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Tasks

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