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Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.

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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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Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
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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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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
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The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.
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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
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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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...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, I hope this child hangs on to that.
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Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
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There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
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God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
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People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
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Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
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The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
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