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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Dream, Business

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• Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Gold

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• The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

  Joseph Campbell

  Water, Swim, Delight

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Rocks, Opposites

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• When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Compassion, Keys, Feelings

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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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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Character, Adventure

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

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• Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Positive, Rest In Peace, Rip

  "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.

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• Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Spiritual, Clue

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Intuition, Depth, May

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Love Is, Stronger

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Discovery, People

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

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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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• The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Watches, Veils

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• You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Compassion, Humanity

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Support, Individualism, Individual

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

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• I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

  Joseph Campbell

  Birthday, Money, Jobs

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• You are the Hero of your own Story.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Suspense Novels, Suspense

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• Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wall, Fall, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

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• What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, School, Technology

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.11, 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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

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• The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Path, Wonderful, Pollen

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• Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

  Joseph Campbell

  Energy, Possibility, Release

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Art, People

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

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