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Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.

Joseph Campbell
Secular Society, Long, May
Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life.

Joseph Campbell
Moving, Thinking, Organization

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

The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that Buddha consciousness within and live out of that, instead of the interests of the eyes and ears.

Joseph Campbell
Yoga, Eye, Ideas

We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life.

Joseph Campbell
Spiritual, Live Life, Heart
Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

Joseph Campbell
Groups, Needs, Individual
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.30, Anchor

There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.

Joseph Campbell
Men, Mind, Looks

One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.

Joseph Campbell
Affirmation, Accepted, Aspect
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.188, Anchor

The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

Joseph Campbell
Passion, Order, Storm
Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.87, Joseph Campbell Foundation

The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.

Joseph Campbell
Moving, Doubt, Atheism

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

I don't have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Campbell
Have Faith

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

Joseph Campbell
Inspiration, Names, Addiction
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.13, 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

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

Joseph Campbell
Reading, Water, Swim

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

Joseph Campbell
Men, Imagination, Religion

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

Joseph Campbell
Dancing, Atoms, Bombs

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

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

Joseph Campbell
Life, Death, Men
"Bios and Mythos".

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

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

Joseph Campbell
Soul, Church, Landscape
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.101, Anchor

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

Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.

Joseph Campbell
Integrity, Heroism, Matter

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