Joseph Campbell Quotes - Page 22

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• With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Moon

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.105, New World Library

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• The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Missing, Alertness, Moments

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• We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Jesus, Light, Heaven

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

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• The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Adversity, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.49, Anchor

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• A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

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  Air, Fire, Water

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.63, Anchor

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• The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

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  Giving, Heroic, Function

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• When you are falling --- Dive!

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall

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• Myth is what we call other people's religion.

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  Inspirational, People, Myth

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• And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Skulls

  Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical atlas of world mythology”

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Needs

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• All babies are Buddha babies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Baby, Human Nature

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• The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.

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  Spiritual, Reflection, Depth

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• Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

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  Religion, Mystery, Metaphorical

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• There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

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  Arbitrary, Mercy, Old Testament

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• Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Earth

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• We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

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  Everyday, Lifetime, Permit

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• The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

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  Influence

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• To find your own way is to follow your bliss.

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  Way, Bliss, Follow Your Bliss

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• If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

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  Believe, Looks, Want

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• There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Heaven, Darkness

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

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• For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

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  Inspirational, People, Important

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell : Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, Harper San Francisco

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• For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

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  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

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  Love, Dream, Dreamer

  "The Power of Myth".

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• An old Apache storyteller reminds us

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  Nature, Storyteller

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• Do what gives you bliss.

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  Giving, Bliss

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