A THREAD on insightful ideas from the book "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell:
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Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us.
This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the 9th Century B.C.
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Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us.
This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the 9th Century B.C.
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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
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Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
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If you go to a master to study & learn the techniques, you diligently follow all instructions the master puts upon you.
But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way.
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.
If you go to a master to study & learn the techniques, you diligently follow all instructions the master puts upon you.
But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way.
You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.
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Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man.
When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man.
When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
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Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
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The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities.
Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself.
The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life.
The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities.
Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself.
The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life.
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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Itβs important to live life with the experience, and therefore the knowledge, of its mystery and of your own mystery.
This gives life a new radiance, a new harmony, a new splendor.
Itβs important to live life with the experience, and therefore the knowledge, of its mystery and of your own mystery.
This gives life a new radiance, a new harmony, a new splendor.
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Sit in a room and read--and read and read.
And read the right books by the right people.
Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read.
And read the right books by the right people.
Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
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A good way to learn is to find a book that seems to be dealing with the problems that you're now dealing with.
A good way to learn is to find a book that seems to be dealing with the problems that you're now dealing with.
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Nirvana is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life.
It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, & social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out of that.
Voluntary action...
Nirvana is right here, in the midst of the turmoil of life.
It is the state you find when you are no longer driven to live by compelling desires, fears, & social commitments, when you have found your center of freedom and can act by choice out of that.
Voluntary action...
... out of this center is the action of the bodhisattvas -- joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
You are not grabbed, because you have released yourself from the grabbers of fear, lust, and duties.
You are not grabbed, because you have released yourself from the grabbers of fear, lust, and duties.
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
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The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle.
This is something I learned from myths.
The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle.
This is something I learned from myths.
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you donβt know what was in the newspapers that morning, you donβt know who your friends are, you donβt know what you owe anybody, you donβt know what anybody owes to you.
This is a place where you can simply...
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you donβt know what was in the newspapers that morning, you donβt know who your friends are, you donβt know what you owe anybody, you donβt know what anybody owes to you.
This is a place where you can simply...
... experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
This is the place of creative incubation.
At first you may find that nothing happens there.
But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.
This is the place of creative incubation.
At first you may find that nothing happens there.
But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.
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