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• Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! 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.

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  Inspirational, People, Ego

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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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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• Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Mystery, Speak

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• Seek to know the power that is within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Power, Knows, Within You

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

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  Growing, Moments, Great Things

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• If you are falling....dive.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Ifs

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• You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

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  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Way

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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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• Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

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  Hero, Journey

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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.

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  Inspirational, Men, Monsters

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

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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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• The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

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  Sublime, Experience

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.97, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stills

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• Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

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  Nature, Art, Mirrors

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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• The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

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  Emotional, Hands, Horizon

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.43, New World Library

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• It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

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  Hero, Creative, Guides

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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.

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  Dream, Expression, Realization

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• A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

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  Depth, Consciousness, Myth

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• Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Trying, Bliss, Hell

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

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• If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

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  Inspirational, Giving, Want

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.17, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• You may have success in life, but then just think of it - what kind of life was it? What good was it - you've never done the thing you wanted to do in all your life. 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.

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  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

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  Sunset, Mountain, Divinity

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.258, Anchor

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• You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

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  Depth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.147, Anchor

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• It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

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  Done, Waste, Shame

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• The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, People, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

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