HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES
Joseph Campbell
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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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"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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"In myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind."
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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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"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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"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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"Through all the contraries of phenomenality the Uncreate-Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear."
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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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"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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"We live not in this physique only, but in all bodies, all physiques of the world."
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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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"Peace is at the heart of all because…Boundless Love includes, regards, and dwells within (without exception) every sentient being."
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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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"The energy behind the elemental pair of opposites, fire and water, is one and the same."
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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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"We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva."
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"Withersoever ye turn, there is the Presence of Allah." Koran, 2:115
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"Universal heroes – Mohammed, Jesus, Gautama Buddha – bring a message for the entire world."
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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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"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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"Since the Godhead is immanent in all, He will make Himself known through any object profoundly regarded."
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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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"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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