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Joseph Campbell Inspirational Quotes (295)

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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
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The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.
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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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The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.
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One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
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You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
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He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
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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.
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Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
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Successful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float, using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.
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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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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.
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The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
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Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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