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141 " I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. "
― Joseph Campbell , The Power of Myth
142 " a complicated story. Indeed all of these get to be pretty complicated. But Isis and her husband Osiris "
143 " Myths inspire the realization of the possibility of your perfection, the fullness of your strength, and the bringing of solar light into the world. Slaying monsters is slaying the dark things. Myths grab you somewhere down inside. "
144 " Eternity isn’t some later time. Eternity isn’t some long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension between here and now, where thinking and time cuts out. If you won’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere "
145 " What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universe—the powers of your own body and of nature. "
146 " So perhaps the hero lurks in each one of us when we don’t know it? CAMPBELL: Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower. “Lead us not into temptation. "
147 " Beirut. What does that say to you? CAMPBELL: It says to me that they don’t know how to apply their religious ideas to contemporary life, and to human beings rather than just to their own community. It’s a terrible example of the failure of religion to meet the modern world. "
148 " MOYERS: A new king or new queen of England is given the coronation ring. CAMPBELL: Yes, because there’s another aspect of the ring—it is a bondage. As king, you are bound to a principle. You are living not simply your own way. You have been marked. In initiation rites, when people are sacrificed and tattooed, they are bonded to another and to the society. "
149 " of that dragon power. When Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted the blood, he hears the song of nature. He has transcended his humanity and reassociated himself with the powers of nature, which are the powers of our life, and from which our minds remove us. You see, consciousness thinks it’s running the "
150 " The serpent, who dies and is resurrected, shedding its skin and renewing its life, is the lord of the central tree, where time and eternity come together. "
151 " The word "compassion" means literally "suffering with."Of course compassion condones suffering in that it recognizes yes, suffering is life. "
152 " All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy. "
153 " of that dragon power. When Siegfried has killed the dragon and tasted the blood, he hears the song of nature. He has transcended his humanity and reassociated himself with the powers of nature, which are the powers of our life, and from which our minds remove us. You see, consciousness thinks it’s running the shop. But it’s a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body. When it does put itself in control, you get a man like Darth Vader in Star Wars, the man who goes over to the consciously intentional side. "
154 " The goddess is the field that produces forms. She is time and space itself, and the mystery beyond her is beyond all pairs of opposites. So it isn't male and female. Everything is within her, so that the gods are her children. "
155 " To what degree was the intention of the artist what we would call “aesthetic” or to what degree expressive? And to what degree is the art something that they had simply learned to do that way? When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider’s nature. It’s instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive? How much of it is conscious and intentional? That is "
156 " students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off. "
157 " While the boy is talking, an army of ants parades across the floor. The boy laughs when he sees them, and Indra's hair stands on end, and he says to the boy, "Why do you laugh?"The boy answers. "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) "
158 " From that point of view is there anything of your life that did not occur by chance? This is a matter of being able to accept chance...Chance or what seems to be by chance is the means by which life is realized. The problem is not to blame for explain but to handle the life that arises. Another war has been declared somewhere and you are drafted into an army and there go five or six years of your life with a whole new set of chance events. The best advice is to take it all AS IF it had been with all of your intention--with that your evoke the participation of your will. "
159 " ¿Qué soy? ¿Soy la lámpara que transporta la luz, o soy la luz y la lámpara es mi vehículo? "
160 " Tehát amikor Jézus azt mondja, hogy "szeresd felebarátodat, mint tenmagadat", akkor valójában nem kevesebbet állít, minthogy "szeresd felebarátodat, mert ő te magad vagy. "