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


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If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

Joseph Campbell


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As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.
Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.
Having a sense of humor saves you.

Joseph Campbell

Mots clés inspirational-success-failure



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Follow your bliss

Joseph Campbell


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

Joseph Campbell

Mots clés education teaching inspiring coaching



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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

Joseph Campbell


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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

Mots clés religion dogma tolerance mythology zealotry



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Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

Joseph Campbell

Mots clés life art love death tragedy



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Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind

Joseph Campbell

Mots clés dream myth



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

Joseph Campbell


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