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Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
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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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The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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You are the Hero of your own Story.
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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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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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