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You've got to find the force inside you.

Joseph Campbell

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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
Force
Find
Intuition
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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Don't do anything that isn't play
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Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.
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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
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Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.
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The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
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One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
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You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
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One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.
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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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Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
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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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