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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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