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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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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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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
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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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The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
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What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure 3-fear of loss 4-desire for gain 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise 7-fear of disgrace [and] 8-desire for fame.
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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