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  • 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.

    Buddhist   Lying   Mind  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor
  • I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

    Life   Children   Women  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor
  • This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

    John Granger (2010). “How Harry Cast His Spell: The Meaning Behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books”, p.94, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

  • The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor
  • Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

    TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.
  • If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

    "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.
  • Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

    "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.
  • We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.30, Anchor
  • I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

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

    Hero   Focus   Monsters  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.156, Anchor
  • All religions are true but none are literal.

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

    "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth". TV Mini-Series, 1988.
  • If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

    TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 2", Chapter 4), 1988.
  • I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter drew his sword and cut off the servant's ear, and Jesus said, "Put back thy sword, Peter." But Peter has had his sword out and at work ever since.

    Jesus   Cutting   Ears  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

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

  • Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

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

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

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor
  • The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

  • Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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

    "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.
  • Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

    "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.
  • 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, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.122, Anchor
  • When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor
  • You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

    Morning   Creative   Use  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor
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