Joseph Campbell Quotes

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to...

Joseph Campbell

Sukhavati - 2007

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Moyers: Do you ever have the sense of being helped by hidden hands? Campbell: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming...

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The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

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The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences...

Joseph Campbell

The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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Campbell: Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it....

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The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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People ask me, "Do you have optimism about the world, about how terrible it is?" And I say, "Yes, it's great the way is it" ... I had the wonderful privilege of sitting face to face with a Hindu guru...

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The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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It's a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts.

Joseph Campbell

The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ. It's a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and...

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The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Joseph Campbell

The The Power of Myth - 2001 Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers PBS television series, Mystic Fire Video - 2001.

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