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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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Misunderstood, Second Best, Conversation

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Water, Swim, Delight

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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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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Heroic, Life Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Broken, Perfection

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Adventure, Mean, Doors

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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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• 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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