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Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Art, Writing
Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.124, New World Library

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Faith, Have Faith
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.259, Anchor

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Dream, Business

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Positive
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, God, Devil
Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

If you are falling....dive.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Fall, Ifs

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.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Nature
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Education, Teacher

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Garden

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Realizing, Eternity

All religions are true but none are literal.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero Journey, Religion

The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Heaven, Eternity

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Children, Motivation
Joseph Campbell (1976). “The Masks of God: Primitive mythology”

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.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Dark, Rivers
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.15, New World Library

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

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

I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Thinking, People

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Men, Joy
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Secret, Lost
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.53, New World Library

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, True Friend, Mind Your Own Business
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Nice, Book
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.122, Anchor

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)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Spiritual, Possibility

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Real, Light
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.44, Anchor

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Military, Native American

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