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

  Joseph Campbell

  Done, Waste, Shame

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• You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Depth

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

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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.

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  Creativity, People, Alive

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

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• Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.

  Joseph Campbell

  Differences, Decision, Fewer

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• Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Space

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• You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Feelings, Attention

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

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• The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Change, Fate

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

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• The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Journey, Compassion

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, People, Ego

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

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• Art is the clothing of a revelation

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Revelations, Art Is

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• Could God exist if nobody else did? No. That’s why gods are very avid for worshipers. If there is nobody to worship them, there are no gods. There are as many gods as there are people thinking about God. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve.

  Joseph Campbell

  Thinking, Avid, People

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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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• What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Courage, Pain

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

  Joseph Campbell

  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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Bliss, Lost, Beam

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.285, 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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• The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

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  Hero, Adventure, Destiny

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.48, New World Library

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Outcomes, Exciting, Knows

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• A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

  Joseph Campbell

  Women, Giving, Birth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.104, Anchor

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Perfection

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• If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, World, Want

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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  God, Able, Enjoy

  "The Power of Myth".

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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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• The insecure way is the secure way.

  Joseph Campbell

  Insecure, Way, Secure

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• Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Bliss, Poet, Lifestyle

  "The Power of Myth".

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