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• Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Integrity, Heroism, Matter

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• One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

  Joseph Campbell

  Long, Vision, Looks

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.68, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.

  Joseph Campbell

  Path, Ifs, Fronts

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• You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Evil, Alive, Irony

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.80, Anchor

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• And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting - the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called "erotic irony," the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.

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  Hurt, Writing, Perfect

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

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• Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

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  Children, Childhood, Community

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.9, Anchor

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• How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

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  Inspirational, Poetry, Ordinary

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.92, New World Library

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• The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Goal, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.49, New World Library

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• First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Firsts, Social, Coordination

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• There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

  Joseph Campbell

  Jesus, Cutting, Ears

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

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• The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

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  Perfect, World, Lovable

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

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• Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heart, Yield

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.19, New World Library

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• If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

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  World, Want, Helping

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.59, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• ...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Eye, Students

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.148, Anchor

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• She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Names, Space

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

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• The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Biblical, Discovery

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• If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

  Joseph Campbell

  New York, Mean, Want

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.8, Anchor

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• The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

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  God, Reflection, Men

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.31, Anchor

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• Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

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  Mean, Names, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.130, Anchor

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• The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.

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  Here And There, Inward, Looks

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

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• You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

  Joseph Campbell

  Useless, Life Is, Ends

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.165, Anchor

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• The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

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  Brother, Ocean, Hero

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

  Joseph Campbell

  White, Holy Places, Faces

  Irishry (1913) "Old Woman"

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• The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Adventure, Ready

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

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• The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

  Joseph Campbell

  Kings, Hero, Mirrors

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.315, New World Library

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