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• Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Perfection, Clumsiness

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• The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Misunderstood, Second Best, Thirds

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

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• Everything starts with a story.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stories

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• Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.

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  Encouraging, Dream, Sight

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• I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Thinking, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.65, Anchor

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• The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure - fearlessness and achievement.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fear, Recovery, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

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• Don't do anything that isn't play

  Joseph Campbell

  Communication, Play, Nonviolent Communication

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• Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Ego, World

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

  Joseph Campbell

  Feelings, Students, Consciousness

  "The Power of Myth".

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• The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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• Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

  Joseph Campbell

  Communication, Artist, Space

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• Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Heart, World

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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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• When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng that by violating the environment in which we are living, we are really cutting off the energy and source of our own living. And it’s this sense of accord, so that living properly in relation to what has to be done in this world one fosters the vitality of the environment.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cutting, Yield, Energy

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• We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

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  People, Soul, Listening

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

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• The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

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  Realms, Heavenly, Relate

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• There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Being Yourself, Privilege, Greater

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• There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave... Now dragons don't know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Dragons

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• Love is perfect kindness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Kindness, Love Is

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.231, Anchor

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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life
  seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.

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  Pain, Opportunity, Challenges

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• Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Block, Crazy

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• This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Unique, Giving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.186, Anchor

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