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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.'

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  Path, Wonderful, Pollen

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

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  Art, Moving, Creative

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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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• Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.

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  Ubiquity, Vision, Quests

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• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

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  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

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  Adventure, Thinking, Tears

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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

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  Significant, Importance, Objects

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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.

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  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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• So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle of the spirit, namely, that you don't follow your own path; you follow a given path. And that's totaly contrary to the Western Spirit! Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization- authenticity in your life out of your own center. So you must take the message of the East, assimilate it to your own dimension and to your own thrust of life, and not get pulled off track.

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  Thinking, Track, Realization

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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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• 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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• No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

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

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  Inspirational, God, Devil

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

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

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  Inspirational, Faith, Have Faith

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

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• If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

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  Life, Priorities, Firsts

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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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.

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  Kings, Men, Evil

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

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• When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

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  Rain, Origin Of Life, Icons

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.10, New World Library

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• Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

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  Inspiration, Character, Improvement

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• Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.

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  Art, Shining, Radiance

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.134, Anchor

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• The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

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  Ideas, Inward, Body

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.60, Anchor

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• The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens, the world bound by horizons in which love is reserved for members of the in-group: that is the world that is passing away. Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and complacency are coming to an end.

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  Ignorance, Love Is, Heaven

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.107, New World Library

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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.

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  Creativity, Artist, Technique

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