HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES
Joseph Campbell
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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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"We live not in this physique only, but in all bodies, all physiques of the world."
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"Forces are working in the present world for unification, not in the name of some ecclesiastical or political empire, but in the sense of human mutual understanding."
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"Since the Deity is immanent in all things, all things are to be regarded as divine."
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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 goal of the myth is to dispel ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will."
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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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"Just as the figments of a dream derive from the life energy of one dreamer, representing only fluid splittings and complications of that single force, so do all the forms of all the worlds, whether terrestrial or divine, reflect the universal force of a single inscrutable mystery: the power that constructs the atom and controls the orbits of the stars."
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"Dr. Jung points out that he has borrowed his term 'archetype' from classic sources: Cicero, Pliny, the Corpus Hermeticum, Augustine, etc. ('Psychology and Religion', par. 89). Bastian notes the correspondence of his own theory of 'Elementary Ideas' with the Stoic concept of the 'Logoi spermatikoi'. The tradition of the 'subjectively known forms' (Sanskrit: antarjneyarupa) is, in fact, coextensive with the tradition of myth, and is the key to the understanding and use of mythological images."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Through all the contraries of phenomenality the Uncreate-Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear."
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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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"The forward roll of the cosmogonic round precipitates the One into the many."
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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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"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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"We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva."
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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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"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 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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"Universal heroes – Mohammed, Jesus, Gautama Buddha – bring a message for the entire world."
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