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• It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

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  Dream, Art, Philosophy

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

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• It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

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  Spirit, Prime, Function

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.7, New World Library

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• I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.

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  Book, Hero, Adventure

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• Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life.

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  Years, Play, Understanding

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• There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.

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  Bliss, Possibility, Fiasco

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2004). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation”, p.133, New World Library

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• In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

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  Way, Plenty, You Choose

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• When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

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  People

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• Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

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  Reality, True Identity, Unity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.138, Anchor

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• Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

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  Inspirational, Baseball, Moving

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• I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

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  Live Life, Thinking, Important

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth". TV Mini-Series, 1988.

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• Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

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  Character, Goes On, Evoke

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

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

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  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

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  Aztec, Faces, Life Is

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.160, Princeton University Press

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• The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

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  Artist, Function

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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• The process of nature cannot be evil.

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  Evil, Process

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

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  Inspirational, Artist, Soul

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• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

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• Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

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  Song, People, Ears

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

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• This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

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  Essentials, Realization, Body

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

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• My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

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  Eye, Voice, Earth

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

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• Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

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  Buddhist, Lying, Mind

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

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• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

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  Dream, Doors, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

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  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

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  Circles, Generations, Tails

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