...all the gods...
...all the heavens...
...all the hells...
...are within you...
Showing posts with label Joseph Campbell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Campbell. Show all posts
Tuesday
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Tuesday
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...The aim of all religious exercises is a psychological transformation...
...You can make up your own meditations and rites based on knowing , loving ,
and serving the deity in caring for your children ,
doctoring drunks , or writing books...
...Any work whatsoever can be a meditation if you have the sense that everything is “brahman”...
...the process...
...the doing...
...the thing that is being looked at...
...the one that is looking...
...everything...
Tuesday
...And so the situation in which we now discover ourselves , of a world of hard fact
both outside and within , the world of the dynamics of potential action
interpreted in the way of a behaviorist psychology , where man never acts , but only reacts ,
and we are little more than machines , either malfunctioning or in order !
...Compare this dismal image with that of the old myths and legends ,
where the hero of action is one who , through his own action ,
determines the shape of the world itself...
What a contrast !
...And the occult , the hidden , metaphysical , whether as GOD , or the DEVIL ,
or man's own inward nature , is something that has simply been refuted...
...There is no such thing...
...There are the laws only of hard , outward fact
and their methodically scientific translation inward...
" ...Yet anyone falling in love will find that , while under the spell of this frenzy ,
the laws of hard fact are for him suspended...
...He becomes the creator of his own sweet world...
...They rightly say that Love is blind , Love does not see the crude , ugly fact
that everyone else beholds and which it has turned into a radiant delight.
Moreover , if Love presses on (or let it be anyone seized with a real passion) ,
the laws that govern all prudent life will dissolve..."
(Copyright © 1997, 2007 Joseph Campbell Foundation), p. 260
Friday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
...Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something...
...it has to do with bringing something forth...
...If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking...
...then you are negatively bound to it...
...You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out...
(Copyright © 2004 Joseph Campbell Foundation),
p. 104
Wednesday
...Like dreams, myths are productions of the human imagination...
...Their images, consequently––though derived from the material world and its supposed history––
are, like dreams, revelations of the deepest hopes, desires and fears,
potentialities and conflicts, of the human will
––which in turn is moved by the energies of the organs of the body operating variously against
each other and in concert...
...Every myth, that is to say, whether or not by intention, is psychologically symbolic...
...Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors...
"The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion"
(Copyright © 1986, 2002 Joseph Campbell Foundation), p. 27-28
Thursday
...My great friend Heinrich Zimmer had a saying: ...
...' The best things cannot be told; the second best are misunderstood.' ...
...The second best are misunderstood because they talk about what cannot be told...
...and one thinks one knows what they are saying...
...This is the way religion is...
...The idea of God is an idea that is metaphoric of something that cannot be told,
and yet we say that God is good, God is merciful, God is just, and God loves these people
and not those , etc. , etc...
...We are not talking about God at all...
...We are talking about our IDEA of God...
...Meister Eckhart, in the thirteenth century, said,
... ' The ultimate leave-taking is leaving God for God. ' ...
...Gods are all metaphors of this ultimate mystery, the mystery of your own being...
Joseph Campbell
"The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959 - 1987: 'Creativity' "
(Copyright © 1997, 2007 Joseph Campbell Foundation)
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