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Joseph Campbell

  • Andrés Alfarohas quoted5 months ago
    It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.
  • Andrés Alfarohas quoted5 months ago
    It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.
  • Andrés Alfarohas quoted5 months ago
    In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.
  • dekrhas quoted2 months ago
    the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed
  • dekrhas quoted2 months ago
    Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.
  • dekrhas quoted2 months ago
    Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream
  • dekrhas quoted2 months ago
    HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
  • dekrhas quoted2 months ago
    separation—initiation—return: which might be named the nuclear unit of the monomyth.
  • dekrhas quoted2 months ago
    the adventure of the hero normally follows the pattern of the nuclear unit above described: a separation from the world, a penetration to some source of power, and a life-enhancing return.
  • dekrhas quoted2 months ago
    Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph
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