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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.

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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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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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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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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You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call following your bliss.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
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I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.
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To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
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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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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
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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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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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