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• Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

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  Inspirational, People, Ego

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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• Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are no gods. There are as many gods as there are people thinking about God. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve.

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  Thinking, Avid, People

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• The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

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  Doe, Facts, Heroic

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• The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

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  Creativity, People, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

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  People, Broken, Perfection

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• Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

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  Pain, Love Is, Stronger

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• Seek to know the power that is within you.

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  Power, Knows, Within You

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• The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

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  Support, Individualism, Individual

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.239, Anchor

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• The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

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  Hero, Character, Adventure

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Hero's Adventure)". TV Mini-Series, June 21, 1988.

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• If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

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  Live Life, Writing, Waiting

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• A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

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  Depth, Consciousness, Myth

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• What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

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  Good Life, Military, Hero

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.133, New World Library

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• Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

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  Hero, Journey

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• Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Morning

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.9, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

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  Fire, Would Be, Use

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• Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

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  Inspirational, Art, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.107, Anchor

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• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

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  People, Soul, Listening

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

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• If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth.

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  Eye, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

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  Evil, Joy, Sorrow

  "Myths to Live By".

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• You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

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  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Way

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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Business

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• Religon is misunderstood mythology

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  Misunderstood, Mythology

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• The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life.

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  Spiritual, Father, Real

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• In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

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  Eye, Rocks, Opposites

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• What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

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  Heart, Fiction, Made

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.73, New World Library

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