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A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

A myth doesn't have to be real to be true.

Joseph Campbell
Real, Being Real, Being True

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Joseph Campbell
Art, Moving, Creative

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

Joseph Campbell
Ignorance, Doe, Complacency
"Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

Joseph Campbell
Past, Numbers, Growth
Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.83, Joseph Campbell Foundation

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Dark, Journey

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Watches, Veils

The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

Joseph Campbell
Knowing Who You Are, Dragons, Ego
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.184, Anchor

If you are falling....dive.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Fall, Ifs

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

Joseph Campbell
Reality, True Identity, Unity
Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.138, Anchor

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

Joseph Campbell
Stress, Struggle, Men

What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

Joseph Campbell
Fall, Unique, People

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Joseph Campbell
Recovery, Addiction, Doing You
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

Joseph Campbell
Stills

No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Life, Nature
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

Joseph Campbell
Hero, Dragons, Champion
Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.289, New World Library

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

Joseph Campbell
Being Yourself, Privilege, Greater

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Education, Teacher

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

Joseph Campbell
Thinking, Important, Facts

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

Joseph Campbell
Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Garden

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

Joseph Campbell
Life, Finding Yourself, Mind

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

Joseph Campbell
Reading, People, Understanding
Joseph Campbell (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.53, New World Library

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

Joseph Campbell
Character, Goes On, Evoke
Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.

Joseph Campbell
Adventure, Firsts, Given

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