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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.
Joseph Campbell
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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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Joseph Cambell
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Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
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A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
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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.
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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
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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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The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
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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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Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
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It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.
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Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
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Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
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