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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
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
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You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
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God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
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If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
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