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We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

Joseph Campbell
Animal, Sea, Water
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

Joseph Campbell
Reality, Knowing Who You Are, Quotation Marks

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

Joseph Campbell
Fear, Garden, Thinking
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.134, Anchor

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Writing, Years

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.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Unique
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.

Joseph Campbell
Dream, Meditation, Heaven

One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.

Joseph Campbell
News, Literature, Today
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.1, Anchor

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Joseph Campbell
Following Your Own Path, Steps, Bliss

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero Journey, Self
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.178, New World Library

All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

Joseph Campbell
Beautiful, Views, Broken

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

Joseph Campbell
Mythology, Misinterpreted, Defined

Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Heart, Trying
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.134, New World Library

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

Joseph Campbell
Ideas, Important, Culture

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Joseph Campbell
Character, Goes On, Evoke
TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

Joseph Campbell
Light, Can Do
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.245, Anchor

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Joseph Campbell
Real, Trials, Losing

When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

Joseph Campbell
Inspiring, Success, Hero

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

Joseph Campbell
Dream, Dwelling, Insanity
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.5, New World Library

Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Focus, Monsters
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.156, Anchor

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Joseph Campbell
Sacrifice, Sacrificing Yourself, Persons

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Past, Men
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.14, New World Library

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

Joseph Campbell
Dream, Views, Heaven
Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.70, New World Library

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

Joseph Campbell
Regret, War, Ignorance
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time ... and it is the function of art to make that visible to you ... then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology.

Joseph Campbell
Art, Thinking, Historical

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

Joseph Campbell
War, Two, Forever

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