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Joseph Campbell Quotes

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward Picture Quote #1

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations Picture Quote #1

We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy Picture Quote #1

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It’s a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles Picture Quote #1

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people’s religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8) Picture Quote #1

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual’s own spiritual experience is lost. (111) Picture Quote #1

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved Picture Quote #1

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Picture Quote #1

Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else Picture Quote #1

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny Picture Quote #1

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine Picture Quote #1

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role Picture Quote #1

In choosing your God, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours Picture Quote #1

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? Picture Quote #1

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I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health Picture Quote #1

How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a God,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is Picture Quote #1

All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody’s mind is capable of true knowledge, you don’t have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be Picture Quote #1

The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind Picture Quote #1

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Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself Picture Quote #1

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure Picture Quote #1

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from Picture Quote #1

Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don’t get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive Picture Quote #1

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that’s how the world becomes Picture Quote #1

This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, ‘love of fate,’ love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art Picture Quote #1

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It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward (Joseph Campbell Quotes) The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations (Joseph Campbell Quotes) We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It’s a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles (Joseph Campbell Quotes) As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face (Joseph Campbell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people’s religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8) (Joseph Campbell Quotes) When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual’s own spiritual experience is lost. (111) (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved (Joseph Campbell Quotes) We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind (Joseph Campbell Quotes) 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 (Joseph Campbell Quotes) As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role (Joseph Campbell Quotes) In choosing your God, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours (Joseph Campbell Quotes) What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? (Joseph Campbell Quotes) I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health (Joseph Campbell Quotes) How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a God,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is (Joseph Campbell Quotes) All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody’s mind is capable of true knowledge, you don’t have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be (Joseph Campbell Quotes) The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable (Joseph Campbell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure (Joseph Campbell Quotes) [M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from (Joseph Campbell Quotes) Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the office every day, you don’t get that experience, but suddenly in war, you are ripped back into being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror - but, by God, you are alive (Joseph Campbell Quotes) A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that’s how the world becomes (Joseph Campbell Quotes) This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, ‘love of fate,’ love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art... (Joseph Campbell Quotes)

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