Moyers: "The person who has the experience has to project it in the best way he can with images. 60)Ĭampbell: "There has to be an experience to catch the message, some clue - otherwise you are not hearing what is being said." The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is being experienced." (p. Poetry is a metaphorical language."Ĭampbell: "Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that hides behind the visible aspect. 57)Ĭampbell: "Myths are so intimately bound to the culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them."Ĭampbell: "All poets. As Novalis said, "The seat of the soul is there where the inner and the outer world meets." (p. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. 55)Ĭampbell: "The inner world is the world of your requirements and our energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world.
To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what mythology does for you."Ĭampbell: "I mean a vocabulary in the form of not words but acts and adventures, which connotes something transcendent of the action here so that you always feel in accord with the universal being." (p. 49)Ĭampbell: "I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To identify with that divine immortal aspect of yourself us to identify with divinity." (p. In India, the god who lies in me is called the "inhabitant" of the body. It is a basic mythic idea of the god who becomes many in us. Moyers: "What does it mean, "Eternity is in love with the productions of time? (said by William Blake)Ĭampbell: "The source of temporal life is the eternity. The photograph above is from the book's chapter, The Hero's Adventure, with a caption of Otto Rank's declaration that "everyone is a hero in birth, where he undergoes a tremendous transformation, from the condition of a little water creature living in a realm of amniotic fluid, into an air breathing mammal which ultimately will be standing." Here is more wisdom that needs sharing: I am so much enjoying reading and re-reading it. Hidden away but in plain sight at the Goodwill Store was Joseph Campbell's, The Power of Myth.
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