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Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
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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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
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Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.
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The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.
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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.
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If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.
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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
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There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
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Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
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