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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
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Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
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