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• We save the world by being alive ourselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, World, Alive

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• The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Men, Sick

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  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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• 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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• If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

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• The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heaven, Eternity

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• Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

  Joseph Campbell

  Angel, Technology, Miracle

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, Anchor

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Priorities, Firsts

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

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• When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

  Joseph Campbell

  Two, India, Guru

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• Awe is what moves us forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Awe

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• When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Realizing, Eternity

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• The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Long, Overcoming

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.22, New World Library

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• Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Art, Writing

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.124, New World Library

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• The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Dragons, Ego

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.184, Anchor

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• The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Real, Light

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

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• Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Secret, Lost

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.53, New World Library

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• Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.

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  Lying, Energy, Pouring

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• I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Thinking, Ready

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• Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Dark, Rivers

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.15, New World Library

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• Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.

  Joseph Campbell

  Work, Moving, Passion

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• At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Law, Survival, Firsts

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• Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Attitude, Sorrowful, Can't Change

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• The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Hero, Men

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.89, New World Library

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• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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