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Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Joseph Campbell

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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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Mythologist
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White Plains
New York
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There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
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