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Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Joseph Campbell
Light, Evil, Results

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

Joseph Campbell
Artist, Function
"The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

Joseph Campbell
Cancer, Life Is, What Is The Meaning Of Life
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.8, Joseph Campbell Foundation

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Joseph Campbell
Life, Spiritual, Clue
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

Joseph Campbell
Ocean, Sleep, Eye
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.77, Anchor

You are the Hero of your own Story.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Suspense Novels, Suspense

The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the pollen path. The Navajo say, 'Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I'm on the pollen path.'

Joseph Campbell
Path, Wonderful, Pollen

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

Joseph Campbell
Live Life, Thinking, Important
"Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth". TV Mini-Series, 1988.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

Joseph Campbell
People, Feelings, Attention
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Artist, Soul

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, World, Want

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

Joseph Campbell
Song, People, Ears
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.107, Anchor

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell
Love, Relationship, Anniversary
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.

Joseph Campbell
Essentials, Realization, Body
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.134, Anchor

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

Joseph Campbell
Eye, Voice, Earth
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.

Joseph Campbell
Energy, Possibility, Release

Awe is what moves us forward.

Joseph Campbell
Moving, Awe

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.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

Joseph Campbell
Communication, Thinking, Bliss
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.48, Joseph Campbell Foundation

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Joseph Campbell
Men, Garden, Thinking
Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.50, New World Library

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Joseph Campbell
Perfection, Made, Process
"A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living". Book edited by Diane K. Osbon, 1991.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

Joseph Campbell
Buddhist, Lying, Mind
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

Joseph Campbell
Dream, Doors, Doe
Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Ego, Messengers
Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.226, New World Library

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)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Real, People
Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.8, New World Library

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