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People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
Historian
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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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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The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
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Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
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There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
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The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
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Awe is what moves us forward.
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If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion... The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.
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What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
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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 perfect human being is uninteresting-the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.
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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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Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person you're giving to the relationship.
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You are the Hero of your own Story.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Hell is life drying up.
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The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
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