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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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White Plains
New York
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.
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Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
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It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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