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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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 is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
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Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
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Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
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There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
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The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
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The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
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Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.
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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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