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‎Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.

‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, God, Faith
Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, School, Technology
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.11, Anchor

Christianity isn’t moving people’s lives today. What’s moving people’s lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It’s a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn’t even an ideal that anybody’s fighting for.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Baseball, Moving

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

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

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

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Religious, Atheist
Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Religious, Atheist
Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Poetry, Biographies
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.213, New World Library

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Technology, Civilization
"Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Positive
TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, God, Space
Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Ideas, Sorrow

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Desire, Radiance
Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.16, New World Library

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, God, Thinking
Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.60, New World Library

The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Dream

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, God, Function
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.28, Anchor

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Artist, Inward
Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.190, New World Library

Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'

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

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Marriage, Affair

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero, Past
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.274, New World Library

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Compassion, Embrace
Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Integrity, Fall

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