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• Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

  Joseph Campbell

  Future, Past, Dimensions

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

  Joseph Campbell

  Growing, Moments, Great Things

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Encouraging, Dream, Sight

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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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• The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won't!

  Joseph Campbell

  Fate, Drag, Guides

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• There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man, and he drank water; and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.46, New World Library

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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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• 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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• 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 demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Pain, Giving

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

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• You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Done, Knows

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• What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Fiction, Made

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.73, New World Library

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Soul, Listening

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Moving, Heart, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• Seek to know the power that is within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Power, Knows, Within You

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• If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

  Joseph Campbell

  Live Life, Writing, Waiting

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• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

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

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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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• I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Monsters

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.8, Anchor

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• Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Expression, Realization

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• You've got to find the force inside you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Intuition, Force

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

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