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Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Father, Uniforms
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, 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

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

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

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Light, Oedipus
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces". Book by Joseph Campbell, 1949.

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

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

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Latin, School

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Eye
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.161, New World Library

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Mean, Men
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, Anchor

There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Air, Together
Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.146, Joseph Campbell Foundation

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Pride, Bows
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.89, New World Library

How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero, Tasks

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Poetry, Ordinary
Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.92, New World Library

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Heart, Yield
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.19, New World Library

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Religious, Moon
Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.105, New World Library

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, People, Myth

And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Fall, Skulls
Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical atlas of world mythology”

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Needs

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, People, Important
Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell : Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, Harper San Francisco

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Hero, Adventure
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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