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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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
New York
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Joseph Cambell
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He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
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Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
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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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Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life
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The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.
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If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
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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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Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
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