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• If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Use, Sacred, Advantage

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• You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

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  Morning, Time, Stress

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Dark, Rivers

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

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• When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Possibility

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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.

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  Inspirational, Real, Light

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

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• Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way.

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  Way, Path

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• Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

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  Light, Evil, Results

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• This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.

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  Spiritual, Yesterday, Historical

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• Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

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  Love You, Enemy, Determine

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• All religions are true but none are literal.

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  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Religion

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• Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

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  Inspirational, Technology, Ethos

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.

  Joseph Campbell

  Shining, Radiance, All Things

  "The Power of Myth".

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• You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• ‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Faith

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

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  Age, Needs, Stories

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.4, Anchor

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• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

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  Hero, Thinking, Self

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

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  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity-my heavens, that's what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into the deepest aspects of inner space connects you with something that is the most vital for the outer realm.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Space, Political

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• ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Communication, Interesting

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

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  Vocabulary, Coercion, Reason

  Joseph Campbell (1968). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

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  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.

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  Hero, Taken, Adventure

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• The place to find is within yourself.

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• A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

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  Hero, Dragons, Champion

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.289, New World Library

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• In the Orient the ultimate divine mystery is sought beyond all human categories of thought and feeling, beyond names and forms, and absolutely beyond any such concept as of a merciful or wrathful personality, chooser of one people over another, comforter of folk who pray, and destroyer of those who do not. Such anthropomorphic attributions of human sentiments and thoughts to a mystery beyond thought is-from the point of view of Indian thought-a style of religion for children.

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  Children, Views, Names

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.53, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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