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• The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

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• Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Myth, Personalized

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.14, New World Library

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• This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Reflection, Artist

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.12, New World Library

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• Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, God, Space

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Bliss, Eternity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.85, Anchor

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• The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Symbols, Highest

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.192, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

  Joseph Campbell

  Soul, Language, Folktales

  Joseph Campbell (1969). “The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

  Joseph Campbell

  Mind, Suffering

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.12, Anchor

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• This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Commitment, Fate

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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• The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Mean, Smell

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• Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Hero, Adventure

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• Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Eternity, Follow Your Bliss

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• It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Majority Rule, Democracy

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

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• Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

  Joseph Campbell

  Passion, Men, Risk

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• You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Different, Way

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• At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Yoga, Space, Finding Yourself

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• Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

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  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.77, Anchor

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• Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Knowing, Boat

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• Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Class, Parent, Our Society

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

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• Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

  Joseph Campbell

  Character, Goes On, Evoke

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

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• You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

  Joseph Campbell

  Christian, Kings, Believe

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

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• One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Humanity, Way

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.182, Anchor

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• [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Desire, Radiance

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.16, New World Library

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• The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but to realize that one is, that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.] Hence separateness, withdrawal, is no longer necessary. Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence-for he has the perfected eye to see.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Eye, Two

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• Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

  Joseph Campbell

  Selfish, Roots, Desire

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