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Hero With A Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell

1 "Through all, the transcendent force…lives in all, in all is wonderful, and is worthy, in all, of our profound obeisance."

2 "God is love…He can be, and is to be, loved, and all without exception are his children."

3 "In myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind."

4 "Dr. Jung points out that he has borrowed his term 'archetype' from classic sources: Cicero, Pliny, the Corpus Hermeticum, Augustine, etc. ('Psychology and Religion', par. 89). Bastian notes the correspondence of his own theory of 'Elementary Ideas' with the Stoic concept of the 'Logoi spermatikoi'. The tradition of the 'subjectively known forms' (Sanskrit: antarjneyarupa) is, in fact, coextensive with the tradition of myth, and is the key to the understanding and use of mythological images."

5 "The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man."

6 "To a man not led astray from himself by sentiments stemming from the surfaces of what he sees, but courageously responding to the dynamics of his own nature – to a man who is, as Nietzsche phrases it, 'a wheel rolling of itself' – difficulties melt and the unpredictable highway opens as he goes."

7 "Universal heroes – Mohammed, Jesus, Gautama Buddha – bring a message for the entire world."

8 "As we are told in the Vedas: 'Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names."

9 "What is immortal and what is mortal are harmoniously blended." Ashvaghosha

10 "We live not in this physique only, but in all bodies, all physiques of the world."

11 "The hearth in the home, the altar in the temple, is the hub of the wheel of the earth, the womb of the Universal Mother whose fire is the fire of life."

12 "The energy behind the elemental pair of opposites, fire and water, is one and the same."

13 "The One breaks into the manifold and the many are reconciled in the One."

14 "Withersoever ye turn, there is the Presence of Allah." Koran, 2:115

15 "Since the Godhead is immanent in all, He will make Himself known through any object profoundly regarded."

16 "Time and eternity are two aspects of the same experience-whole, two planes of the same nondual ineffable; i.e., the jewel of eternity is in the lotus of birth and death: om mani padme hum."

17 "Through all the contraries of phenomenality the Uncreate-Imperishable remains, and there is nothing to fear."

18 "Briefly formulated, the universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world – all things and beings – are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve. This is the power known to science as energy, to the Melanesians as 'mana', to the Sioux Indians as 'wakonda', the Hindus as 'shakti', and the Christians as the power of God. Its manifestation in the psyche is termed, by the psychoanalysts, 'libido.' And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure and flux of the universe itself."

19 "The beautiful sound of eternity is heard by the pure mind throughout creation, and therefore within itself."

20 "There can be no doubt that in the main the mental characteristics of man are the same all over the world." Franz Boas, 'The Mind of Primitive Man'

21 "Peace is at the heart of all because…Boundless Love includes, regards, and dwells within (without exception) every sentient being."

22 "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth."

23 "It must be known that, though this ignorant, limited, self-defending, suffering body may regard itself as threatened by some other – the enemy – that one too is the God."

24 "Oh, Lord of the Universe, I will sing Thee a song. Where canst Thou be found, and where canst Thou not be found? Where I pass – there art Thou. Where I remain – there, too, Thou art. Thou, Thou, and only Thou." Leon Stein, 'Hassidic Music'

25 "Protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world. One has only to know and trust, and the ageless guardians will appear."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite