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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
Joseph Campbell
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
Joseph Campbell
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Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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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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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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If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
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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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You've got to find the force inside you.
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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
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Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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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.
Joseph Campbell