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HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES
Joseph Campbell
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"The old teachers knew what they were saying. Once we have learned to read again their symbolic language, it requires no more than the talent of an anthologist to let their teaching be heard."
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"Withersoever ye turn, there is the Presence of Allah." Koran, 2:115
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"Myth is a directing of the mind and heart, by means of profoundly informed figurations, to that ultimate mystery which fills and surrounds all existences."
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"As we are told in the Vedas: 'Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names."
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"The Eight Hundred Myriads of Gods are but differing manifestations of one unique Deity…The Eternally Standing Divine Being of the Earth, The Great Unity of All Things in the Universe, The Primordial Being of Heaven and Earth, eternally existing." Izawa-Nagahide, 'Shinto-Ameno-Nuboko-no-Ki'
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"The energy behind the elemental pair of opposites, fire and water, is one and the same."
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"This world IS Nirvana….'This our worldly life is an activity of Nirvana itself, not the slightest distinction exists between them.' Nagarjuna, 'Madhyamika Shastra'
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"In myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind."
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"There can be no doubt that in the main the mental characteristics of man are the same all over the world." Franz Boas, 'The Mind of Primitive Man'
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"It must be known that, though this ignorant, limited, self-defending, suffering body may regard itself as threatened by some other – the enemy – that one too is the God."
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"Protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world. One has only to know and trust, and the ageless guardians will appear."
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"The forward roll of the cosmogonic round precipitates the One into the many."
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"It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward."
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"Through all, the transcendent force…lives in all, in all is wonderful, and is worthy, in all, of our profound obeisance."
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"Through all the contraries of phenomenality the Uncreate-Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear."
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"Universal heroes – Mohammed, Jesus, Gautama Buddha – bring a message for the entire world."
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"The distinction between eternity and time is only apparent – made, perforce, by the rational mind, but dissolved in the perfect knowledge of the mind that has transcended the pairs of opposites."
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"Since the Deity is immanent in all things, all things are to be regarded as divine."
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"The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man."
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"Him on whom the sky, the earth, and the atmosphere are woven, and the mind, together with all the life-breaths, Him alone know as the one Soul. Other words dismiss. He is the bridge to immortality." Mundaka Upanishad, 2. 2. 5
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"Briefly formulated, the universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world – all things and beings – are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve. This is the power known to science as energy, to the Melanesians as 'mana', to the Sioux Indians as 'wakonda', the Hindus as 'shakti', and the Christians as the power of God. Its manifestation in the psyche is termed, by the psychoanalysts, 'libido.' And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure and flux of the universe itself."
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"To a man not led astray from himself by sentiments stemming from the surfaces of what he sees, but courageously responding to the dynamics of his own nature – to a man who is, as Nietzsche phrases it, 'a wheel rolling of itself' – difficulties melt and the unpredictable highway opens as he goes."
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"Peace is at the heart of all because…Boundless Love includes, regards, and dwells within (without exception) every sentient being."
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"Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of the savior and conduct the questing wanderer into the sanctum sanctorum of his own heart."
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"Time and eternity are two aspects of the same experience-whole, two planes of the same nondual ineffable; i.e., the jewel of eternity is in the lotus of birth and death: om mani padme hum."
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