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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.
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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
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For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
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Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
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Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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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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The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
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