What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. Joseph Campbell More Quotes by Joseph Campbell More Quotes From Joseph Campbell There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it. Joseph Campbell quotation-marks knowing-who-you-are reality The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Joseph Campbell soul spiritual world The best we can do is lean towards the light. Joseph Campbell light can-do 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 latin inspirational school Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell faith inspirational life What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects. Joseph Campbell technology inspirational school Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. Joseph Campbell heart trying inspirational Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life. Joseph Campbell understanding play years The place to find is within yourself. Joseph Campbell The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. Joseph Campbell light real inspirational I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other. Joseph Campbell meditation dream heaven We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being. Joseph Campbell nature sea animal The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do. Joseph Campbell answers people world If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly. Joseph Campbell three path two 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 evoke goes-on character Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities. Joseph Campbell release possibility energy Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind. Joseph Campbell names mean people You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way. Joseph Campbell different way thinking Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules. Joseph Campbell doors adventure mean The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world." Joseph Campbell function artist world
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