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Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth

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  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    Those are the two figures you have just spoken of -- the simple, innocent, childlike one, and the terrific threat. You see the problems of the modern day.
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    The myth tells me about it, how to respond to certain crises of disappointment or delight or failure or success. The myths tell me where I am.
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    Certain prayers or meditations are designed to hold your consciousness on that level instead of letting it drop down
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    These missions are mystical journeys with all of the details of the typical mystical

    journey. First, there is disengagement from secular life. Everybody who is going to go on this expedition has to make a complete confession of all the faults of his or her recent living. And if they don't, the magic is not going to work. Then they start on the journey.
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    stories may take the same universal theme but apply it slightly differently, depending upon the accent of the people who are speaking
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    The themes are timeless, and the inflection is to the culture.
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    creation, death and resurrection, ascension to heaven, virgin births -- I didn't know what it was, but I recognized the vocabulary. One after another
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    When I was a kid, we wore short trousers, you know, knee pants. And then there was a great moment when you put on long pants. Boys now don't get that.
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    This is something that becomes beautifully realized in the second stage of marriage, what I call the alchemical stage, of the two experiencing that they are one. If they are still living as they were in the primary stage of marriage, they will go apart when their children leave.
  • Даша Созаруковаhas quoted4 years ago
    By marrying the right person, we reconstruct the image of the incarnate God, and that's what marriage is.
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