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• Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Wings, Entanglement

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.

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  Heart, House, Mind

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• If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ideas, Fixed, Ifs

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• When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Darkness, Lost

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• Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

  Joseph Campbell

  Motivational, Pain, Suffering

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• You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Miracle, Conditions

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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• You've got to find the force inside you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Intuition, Force

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

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• When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Jobs, Perfect

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• People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 2", Chapter 4), 1988.

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• Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving Up, Mean, Simplicity

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• He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.65, Anchor

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• Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Arriving

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• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Listening, World

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

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• It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Art, Organization

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• I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wise, Courage, Jobs

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• The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Pain, Giving

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

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• If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

  Joseph Campbell

  Two, Three, Path

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• Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.104, New World Library

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• Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Important

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• It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

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  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

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  Religious, Lying, Ignorance

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Dimensions, Spirit

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.18, New World Library

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• Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

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  Life, World, Opinion

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• The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

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