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• Seek to know the power that is within you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Power, Knows, Within You

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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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• If you are falling....dive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Fall, Ifs

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Emotional, Hands, Horizon

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

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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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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero Journey, Way

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• A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Military, Native American

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Sunset, Mountain, Divinity

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Sublime, Experience

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

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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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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Art, Mirrors

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

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• Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Mean, Doors

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Creative, Guides

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Depth, Consciousness, Myth

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• The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

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  Misunderstood, Second Best, Conversation

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

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Soul, Feelings

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

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

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  Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

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• If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

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  Hero Journey, Way, Realizing

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• Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Heroic, Life Is

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• Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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

  Joseph Campbell

  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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