Joseph Campbell quotes - page 3

We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us - the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. (Joseph Campbell)
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet. View quote
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Awe is what moves us forward. View quote
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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. View quote
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Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death. View quote
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It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported. View quote
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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, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold. View quote
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We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows. View quote
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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... View quote
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There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail. View quote
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. (Joseph Campbell)
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. View quote
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Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) View quote
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The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. View quote
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If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. View quote
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I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. View quote
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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. View quote
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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah! View quote
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I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. View quote
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The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. View quote
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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. (Joseph Campbell)
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. View quote
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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) View quote
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What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects. View quote
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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) View quote
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