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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
Suffering
Others
Mind
Privation
Hidden
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Alone

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He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.
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The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
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If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.
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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
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If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The myth does not point to a fact the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
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Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
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There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.
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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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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
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