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Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.
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
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Joseph Cambell
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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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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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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
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There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call atheists, and those who think they are facts are religious. Which group really gets the message?
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Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
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There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
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Everything starts with a story.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
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Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.
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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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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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When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
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There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
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