Favorite Joseph Campbell Quotations

Are you looking for a quotation that you can't quite place? Trying to track down a hard-to-find publication? Here, folks can help you find the answers, or discuss ways for you to discover them for yourself.

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Ercan2121 wrote:Romansh, so sorry for posting here but i cannot find your post about hero/trickster
comparison. I read it only once and need again the whole text for a decent reply.
Thank you
Sorry Ercan it was not me (at least I don't think so).
I did a search on "trickster" and apparently I have not used that term.
AL - in a reply to me did though.

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Ercan2121 wrote: Hello, this long quote is certainly from Joseph Campbell but i don't know exactly where
he tells his own beautiful version of 'Conference of Birds' by Farid ad-Din Attar.
Any ideas? :)
I just googled the opening couple of sentences - and came across this:
http://www.drjohncervantes.com/PDF/The_ ... _Faces.pdf
I don't know if dr john is associated with jcf, but there could be some copyright issues here.
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Thanks, Rom. That's a flagrant copyright violation whether or not he's associated with the Foundation.
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Clemsy wrote:Thanks, Rom. That's a flagrant copyright violation whether or not he's associated with the Foundation.
Well happy deflagration.

Ah the good old days of high school chemistry ;)
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This line is Campbell's, right? "Be the change you want to see."

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"Be the change you want to see in the world" is a Ghandi quote. :-)
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Of course, thank you, Clemsy. :)
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Post by JamesN. »

I have always loved this one: 8)

" Life as an art and art as a game as an action for it's own sake, without thought of gain or loss, praise or blame - is the key, then, to the turning of living itself into a yoga, and art into the means to such a life. "

This came up on the homepage quotes the other day and I had to copy it down. I didn't think to look for the source at the time. I can't remember where I first saw it. I think it might be: " The Hero's Journey "; " Reflections on the Art of Living - A Joseph Campbell Companion "; or " Pathways To Bliss ".
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JamesN. wrote:I have always loved this one: 8)

" Life as an art and art as a game as an action for it's own sake, without thought of gain or loss, praise or blame - is the key, then, to the turning of living itself into a yoga, and art into the means to such a life. "

This came up on the homepage quotes the other day and I had to copy it down. I didn't think to look for the source at the time. I can't remember where I first saw it. I think it might be: " The Hero's Journey "; " Pathways To Bliss "; or " Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion ".
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James,

So you do have Campbell's Pathways to Bliss and Companion? In light of what we've talked about together recently, I've been planning to suggest these books to you. I go ahead and mention it now so I don't forget; I'm still playing catch-up with PMs. Sorry.

And this Jung book, too, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

Look for me again soon. :)

Cindy


P.S. Please visit the JCF Bookstore should you decide to make a purchase. :wink: :lol:
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James, this is probably the best quote I have read in a long time... Thanks!

"without thought of gain or loss, praise or blame - is the key, then, to the turning of living itself into a yoga"

I will get there one day! :p
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Hi all,

This stuck out as I read it again the other day. From Hero;


"Guided by the practical judgement of the kings and the instruction of the priests of the dice of devine revelation, the field of consciousness so contracts that the grand lines of the human comedy are lost in a welter of cross-purposes. Men's perspectives become flat, comprehending only the light-reflecting, tangible surfaces of existence."



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Thank you, Boringguy.
That's the age of information and also of 'memory' but wisdom is still very rare :(
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The Solar system and the atom, the two extreme extremes of scientific
exploration, recognized as identical, yet distinct! Analogous must be our own
identity with the All, of which we are the ears and eyes and mind.
The very great physicist Erwin Schrödinger has made the same metaphysical point
in his startling and sublime little book, My View of the World. “All of us living beings
belong together” he there declares “in as much as we are all in reality sides or aspects
of one single being”
from Myths to Live By

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