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Joseph Campbell Quotes
«If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living»
«Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
conquered, demons, limitations, quest, questing, quest after, realization, realizations, shut, shut off, The Demon, The Spirit, ubiquity, vision
«Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
clues, clue in, myths, potentialities, potentiality, spiritual, The Spiritual
«The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
assign, date, dated, December, incarnation, Mithra, Nativity, Nativity of Christ, Persian, Persians, savior, solstice, the Incarnation, The Night of the, The Persians, winter solstice
«When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
celebrate, divisions, mythologies, mythology, nation state, States, symbol, the country, The New
«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.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
bringing, grail, inauthentic, known as, preliminary, supposed, theme, wasteland
«The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
adventure, adventured, adventuring, big, hearty, question, the Big, yes
«One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
contemporary, dedicate, dedicates, dedicating, flowering, fostered, fostering, fosters, humanity, one way, The Contemporary, to that
«If You Are On Your Own Path Things Are Going To Come To You. Since It Is Your Own Path & No One Has Ever Been On It Before, there?s No Precedent, So Everything That Happens Is A Surprise & Is Timely.»
«When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
sacrifice, sacrificing, The Sacrifice, to each other, unity