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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Shining, Radiance

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiration, Character, Improvement

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

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Talking, Misunderstood, Littles

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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?

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  Two, India, Guru

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• Awe is what moves us forward.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Awe

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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.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

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• Don't do anything that isn't play

  Joseph Campbell

  Communication, Play, Nonviolent Communication

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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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• When we follow our bliss, we are met by a thousand unseen helping hands.

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  Hands, Unseen, Helping

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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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• 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)

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  Inspirational, Realizing, Eternity

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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 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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• If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Doe

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• Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Imagination, World

  Joseph Campbell (2007). “The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987”, p.16, New World Library

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Lying, Energy, Pouring

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

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  Work, Moving, Passion

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

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  Heart, Thinking, Ready

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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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• Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

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  Stills

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• The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

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  Soul, World, Requirements

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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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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