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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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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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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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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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Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
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If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.
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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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Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
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The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.
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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call following your bliss.
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The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
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