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I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture 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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Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
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Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
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I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
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Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
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The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, I hope this child hangs on to that.
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The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
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The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
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We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
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