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• The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

  Joseph Campbell

  Doe, Facts, Heroic

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• He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Thinking

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

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• There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.

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  Bliss, Lost, Beam

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.285, Anchor

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• Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Morning

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.9, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

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  Adventure, Watches, Veils

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• Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Gold

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• The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

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  Fire, Would Be, Use

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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Business

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• God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

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  God, Able, Enjoy

  "The Power of Myth".

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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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• Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

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  Outcomes, Exciting, Knows

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• Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

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  People, Broken, Perfection

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• Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

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  Inspirational, Discovery, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.16, Anchor

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• Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Found You, Essentials

  Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.19, New World Library

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• The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

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  Water, Swim, Delight

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• The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

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  Compassion, Keys, Feelings

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• The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

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  Hero, Character, Adventure

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Hero's Adventure)". TV Mini-Series, June 21, 1988.

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• I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

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  Birthday, Money, Jobs

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• You are the Hero of your own Story.

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  Hero, Suspense Novels, Suspense

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• Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

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  Wall, Fall, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

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• Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

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  Pain, Love Is, Stronger

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• You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

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  Real, Compassion, Humanity

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell : Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, Harper San Francisco

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• What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

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  Inspirational, School, Technology

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.11, Anchor

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• Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

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  Energy, Possibility, Release

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• The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

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  Path, Wonderful, Pollen

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