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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
Orator
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.
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The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.
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So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
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If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.
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We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
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The myth does not point to a fact the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.
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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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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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Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
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The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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