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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny. (Joseph Campbell)
The demon that you can swallow gives you it's power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply. View quote
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. View quote
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If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all. View quote
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Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream. View quote
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Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination. View quote
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Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names. View quote
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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. View quote
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You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave. View quote
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The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. View quote
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. (Joseph Campbell)
But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind. View quote
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The passage of the mythological hero. View quote
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The image of the cosmos must change with the development of the mind and knowledge; otherwise, the mythic statement is lost, and man becomes dissociated from the very basis of his own religious experience. View quote
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This is our problem as modern 'enlightened' individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence. View quote
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Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic. View quote
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Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence - for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. View quote
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It is only those who know neither an inner call nor an outer doctrine whose plight is truly desperate; that is to say, most of us today, in this labyrinth without and within the heart. Alas, where is the guide. View quote
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This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ. View quote
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It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back. In fact, it may very well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism among ourselves follows the decline among us of such effective spiritual aid. View quote
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You must remember: all of the great traditions, and little traditions, in their own time were scientifically correct. That is to say, they were correct in terms of the scientific image of that age. (Joseph Campbell)
This divorce this is a fatal thing, and a very unfortunate thing, and a totally unnecessary thing. View quote
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. View quote
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. View quote
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. View quote
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