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• The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

  Joseph Campbell

  Significant, Importance, Objects

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• If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Want, Resurrection, Crucifixion

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• What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Courage, Pain

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• The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Adventure, Destiny

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.48, New World Library

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• Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Trying, Bliss, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

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  Artist, Mystery, Speak

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• Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Cells, Wind

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.52, New World Library

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• Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Bliss, Poet, Lifestyle

  "The Power of Myth".

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• The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Warrior, Approach

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• A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Victory, World

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.23, New World Library

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• It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Kings, Men, Evil

  "Maurice Sendak: "Where the Wild Things Are"". "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, Artist, Technique

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• The place to find is within yourself.

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• The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Journey, Compassion

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• The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Moving, Creative

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• The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fear, Recovery, Adventure

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Faith, Have Faith

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.259, Anchor

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• It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

  Joseph Campbell

  Done, Waste, Shame

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• Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

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  Inspirational, Discovery, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

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• For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Destiny, Agony

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

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• If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero Journey, Way, Realizing

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• What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

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  Past, Numbers, Growth

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.83, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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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.

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  Ignorance, Doe, Complacency

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Devil

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Found You, Essentials

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.19, New World Library

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