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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
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If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
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There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
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One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
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Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
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The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.
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As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
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The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.
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The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
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I don't need faith. I have experience.
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Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
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The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
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Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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