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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.
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
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
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The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
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Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
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You are the Hero of your own Story.
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I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
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The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.
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The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
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As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
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