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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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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
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Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out. This is it. And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.
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The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
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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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Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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