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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

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

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

Joseph Campbell
Missing, Alertness, Moments

We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy.

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

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Adversity, People
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.49, Anchor

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

Joseph Campbell
Air, Fire, Water
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.63, Anchor

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, People, Myth

When you are falling --- Dive!

Joseph Campbell
Fall

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”

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

Joseph Campbell
Giving, Heroic, Function

All babies are Buddha babies.

Joseph Campbell
Baby, Human Nature

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Needs

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

Joseph Campbell
Religion, Mystery, Metaphorical

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.

Joseph Campbell
Spiritual, Reflection, Depth

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

Joseph Campbell
Arbitrary, Mercy, Old Testament

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

Joseph Campbell
Men, Earth

We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us

Joseph Campbell
Everyday, Lifetime, Permit

The influence of a vital being vitalizes.

Joseph Campbell
Influence

To find your own way is to follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell
Way, Bliss, Follow Your Bliss

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

Joseph Campbell
Believe, Looks, Want

There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.

Joseph Campbell
Believe, Heaven, Darkness
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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

The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.

Joseph Campbell
Love, Dream, Dreamer
"The Power of Myth".

Do what gives you bliss.

Joseph Campbell
Giving, Bliss

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

Joseph Campbell
Nature, Storyteller

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