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• We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Important, Facts

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• What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

  Joseph Campbell

  Communication, Thinking, Bliss

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.48, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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  Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Technology, Civilization

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Heart, Brain

  Joseph Campbell (2002). “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion”, p.19, New World Library

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• A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render...
  the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Artist, Radiance

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

  Joseph Campbell

  Perfection, Made, Process

  "A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

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• Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

  Joseph Campbell

  Ubiquity, Events, Mythology

  Joseph Campbell (1972). “Myths to live by”, Viking Pr

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• How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Ego, Messengers

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

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• Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Real, People

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.8, New World Library

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• The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Garden, Thinking

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.50, New World Library

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• Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, World, Myth

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• Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Poetry, Biographies

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.213, New World Library

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• Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Alive, Rapture, Seeking

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• The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Greek, Born

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• We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Two, May, Definitions

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.89, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Light, Soul

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.334, New World Library

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• Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cancer, Life Is, What Is The Meaning Of Life

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.8, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Men, Two

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• The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Intention, Advise

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• Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Death, Order

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• What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.

  Joseph Campbell

  Play, Universe

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• God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mind, Spheres, Senses

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.111, Anchor

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• [M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Stories, Inspired

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