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From Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
- Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these…
- When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of…
- The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior…
- Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or…
- 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…
- No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,…
- If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that…
- Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the…
- Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience…
- One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something…
- What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act -…
- A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory…
- There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are…
- The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of…
- Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,…
- The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided from the heavens,…
- There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one was a man,…
- 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…
- 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…
- [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop…
- 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,…
- Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what…
- Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have…
- God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will…
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