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There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since."
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Joseph Campbell |
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The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.
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Joseph Campbell |
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7e0253e
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Follow your bliss
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Joseph Campbell |
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d1c9400
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They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.
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life
path
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Joseph Campbell |
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90aaf6b
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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
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god
hubris
impudence
understanding
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Joseph Campbell |
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To become--in Jung's terms--individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to put off the masks of one's various life roles. 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do,' and when at home, do not keep on the mask of the role you play in the Senate chamber. But this, finally, is not easy, since some of the masks cut deep. They include judgment and moral values. They include one's pride, ambition, and achiev..
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individuation
joseph-campbell
roles
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Joseph Campbell |
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We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomonation, we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence.
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Joseph Campbell |
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When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.
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Joseph Campbell |
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Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment--not discouragement--you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvem..
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fate
growth
life
love
nietzsche
positivity
strength
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Joseph Campbell |
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Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind
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myth
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Joseph Campbell |
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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.
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death
life
love
tragedy
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Joseph Campbell |
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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
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Joseph Campbell |
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end... The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth--that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, ..
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Joseph Campbell |
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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
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heaven
moon
myth
perspective
religion
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Joseph Campbell |
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The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
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Joseph Campbell |
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The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
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education
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Joseph Campbell |
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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.
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Joseph Campbell |
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The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?
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Joseph Campbell |
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Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
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Joseph Campbell |
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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Joseph Campbell |
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In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.
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mythology
philosophy
spirituality
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Joseph Campbell |
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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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mythology
philosophy
spirituality
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Joseph Campbell |
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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)
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religion
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Joseph Campbell |
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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. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.
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change
grace
life
moving-forward
plans
vitality
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Joseph Campbell |
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The hero of yesterday becomes the tyrant of tomorrow, unless he crucifies himself today.
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Joseph Campbell |
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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)
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mythology
spiritual-experience
spirituality
translation
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Joseph Campbell |
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Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal terms cuts off.... the experience of eternity right here and now, in all things, whether thought of as good or as evil, is the function of life.
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Joseph Campbell |
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The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.
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myth
self
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Joseph Campbell |
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It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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courage
demons
kind
man
tame
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Joseph Campbell |
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The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved--by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums. It is only those who know neither an inner call nor an outer doctrine whose plight truly is desperate;..
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myth
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Joseph Campbell |
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
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Joseph Campbell |
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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.
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Joseph Campbell |
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Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder you are, and experiencing awe before this mystery....The second is a cosmological dimension, the dimension with which science is concerned - showing you what shape the universe is, but showing it in such a way that the mystery again comes through.... The third function is the sociological one - supporting a..
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Joseph Campbell |
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The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is--to me at least--more interesting. It is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, with the expectation of a spontaneous remission--which, however, does not always follow. Yoga, too, is intentional schizophrenia: one breaks away from the world, plunging inward, and the ranges of vision experienced are in fact the same as those of a psychosis. But what, then, is the difference? What is the difference ..
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drowning
lsd
metaphor
mysticism
schizophrenia
shamanism
yoga
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Joseph Campbell |
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Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)"
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god
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Joseph Campbell |
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Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
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mythology
philosophy
spirituality
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Joseph Campbell |
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Awe is what moves us forward.
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mythology
philosophy
spirituality
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Joseph Campbell |
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Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come
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Joseph Campbell |
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d5c7b6e
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Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
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Joseph Campbell |
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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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Joseph Campbell |
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.
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Joseph Campbell |
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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dream
myth
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Joseph Campbell |
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7e0fe2c
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The problem is that people have tried to look away from space and from the meaning of the moon landing. I remember seeing a picture of an astronaut standing on the moon. It was up at Yale and someone has scrawled on it, 'So what?' That is the arrogance of the kind of academic narrowness one too often sees; it is trapped in its own predictable prejudices, its own stale categories. It is the mind dulled to the poetry of existence. It's fashio..
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Joseph Campbell |
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Once we have broken free of the prejudices of our own provincially limited ecclesiastical, tribal, or national rendition of the world archetypes, it becomes possible to understand that the supreme initiation is not that of the local motherly fathers, who then project aggression onto the neighbors for their own defense. The good news, which the World Redeemer brings and which so many have been glad to hear, zealous to preach, but reluctant, ..
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Joseph Campbell |