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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, God, Thinking

Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.60, New World Library

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Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Children, Motivation

Joseph Campbell (1976). “The Masks of God: Primitive mythology”

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In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences, there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which our brain is simply an organ. Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain is an organ of consciousness. It focuses consciousness and pulls it in and directs it through a time and space field. But the antecedent of that is the universal consciousness of which we are all just a part.

Joseph Campbell

Past, Space, Brain

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In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

Joseph Campbell

Dream, Absence, Pantheon

Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.2, New World Library

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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'

Joseph Campbell

Should Have, Should, Blisters

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The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Life, Dream

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The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Joseph Campbell

Eternity, Concept Of Time, Concepts

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A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

Joseph Campbell

Old Things, Together Again, Elements

Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

Joseph Campbell

Men, Ordinary, Hometown

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.

Joseph Campbell

Christian, Church, Faith In God

Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.

Joseph Campbell

Compassion, Giving, Principles

Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.

Joseph Campbell

School, Thinking, Broken

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For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of harmony with the universe. For those, however, in whom the authorized signs no longer work-or, if working, produce deviant effects-there follows inevitably a sense both of dissociation from the local social nexus and of quest, within and without, for life, which the brain will take to be for 'meaning'.

Joseph Campbell

Order, Brain, Quests

Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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Love is exactly as strong as life.

Joseph Campbell

Strong, Love Is

Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.96, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, God, Function

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.28, Anchor

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

Dream, Waiting, Machines

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The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

Joseph Campbell

Illumination, Solitude, Noble

Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.142, New World Library

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What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Artist, Inward

Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.190, New World Library

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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Joseph Campbell

God, Army, Hell

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.279, Anchor

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Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

Joseph Campbell

Art, Culture, Alive

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.72, Anchor

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Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Joseph Campbell

Marriage, Wedding, Sacrifice

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

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Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

Joseph Campbell

Trying, Bliss, Stations

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

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Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Giving, Miracle

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Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Self, Voice

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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But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Hero, Past

Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library

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Died: October 30, 1987
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