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The myth does not point to a fact the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.
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We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
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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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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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When your mind is simply 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 call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
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Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person you're giving to the relationship.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
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The perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
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You've got to find the force inside you.
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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.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia one was a man, and he drank water and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.
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Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
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I don't need faith. I have experience.
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The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
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