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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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New York
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There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.
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You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
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When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
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Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.
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This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
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Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
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If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
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It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
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The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
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Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
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A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
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