HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES
Joseph Campbell
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"In myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind."
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"Since the Deity is immanent in all things, all things are to be regarded as divine."
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"Oh, Lord of the Universe, I will sing Thee a song. Where canst Thou be found, and where canst Thou not be found? Where I pass – there art Thou. Where I remain – there, too, Thou art. Thou, Thou, and only Thou." Leon Stein, 'Hassidic Music'
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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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"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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"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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"Through all the contraries of phenomenality the Uncreate-Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear."
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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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"The energy behind the elemental pair of opposites, fire and water, is one and the same."
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"God is love…He can be, and is to be, loved, and all without exception are his children."
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"The beautiful sound of eternity is heard by the pure mind throughout creation, and therefore within itself."
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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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"The goal of the myth is to dispel ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will."
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"Thine is Heaven, Thine is Earth. Thou fillest the high regions, and Thou fillest the low regions. Wheresoever I turn, Thou, oh Thou, art there." Leon Stein, 'Hassidic Music'
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"Withersoever ye turn, there is the Presence of Allah." Koran, 2:115
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"The forward roll of the cosmogonic round precipitates the One into the many."
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"We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva."
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"[In mythology] stand revealed the hidden processes of the enigma Homo sapiens – Occidental and Oriental, primitive and civilized, contemporary and archaic. The entire spectacle is before us. We have only to read it, study its constant patterns, analyze its variations, and therewith come to an understanding of the deep forces that have shaped man's destiny and must continue to determine both our private and our public lives."
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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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"As we are told in the Vedas: 'Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names."
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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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"Universal heroes – Mohammed, Jesus, Gautama Buddha – bring a message for the entire world."
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"The hearth in the home, the altar in the temple, is the hub of the wheel of the earth, the womb of the Universal Mother whose fire is the fire of life."
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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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"Since the Godhead is immanent in all, He will make Himself known through any object profoundly regarded."
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