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This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

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
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Hell is life drying up.
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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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The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
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A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.
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There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
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The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's the whole point is to find your own way.
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One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
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Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
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The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
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