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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
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How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
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This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
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