the hero with a thousand faces by joseph campbell

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence - for he has the perfected eye to see. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. ISBN 1577315936 Where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back. quoted in (source: Myths to Live By - By Joseph Campbell.Not so alien to the imagery of modern science that it could not have been put to acceptable use. It is ironic that our great western civilization, which has opened to the minds of all mankind the infinite wonders of a universe of untold billions of galaxies should be saddled with the tightest little cosmological image known to mankind? The Hindus with their grandiose Kalpas and their ideas of the divine power which is beyond all human category (male or female).quoted in (source: Philosophy of Hinduism - An Introduction - By T C Galav Universal Science-Religion.He requires only to bring the spontaneous activity of his mind stuff to a state of stillness and he will experience that divine principle with him. Hinduism believes in the omnipresence of the Supreme God in every individual. In the Biblical tradition, God creates man, but man cannot say that he is divine in the same sense that the Creator is, where as in Hinduism, all things are incarnations of that power.

There is an important difference between the Hindu and the Western ideas.

Comments on a passage in Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak, as quoted by Bill Moyers in 'NOW with Bill Moyers', PBS (12 March 2004).

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (1991).

Quotes It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

1.4 Mythology and the Individual (1997).

1.1 The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

The hero with a thousand faces by joseph campbell