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Joseph Campbell Inspirational Quotes (296)

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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.
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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
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Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
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There is no security in following the call to adventure.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
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For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.
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A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
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This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
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Religon is misunderstood mythology
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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
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There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
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Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.
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