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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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Mythologist
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White Plains
New York
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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance regrets are illuminations come too late.
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There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.
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Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
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Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.
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When you are falling --- Dive!
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Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
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There is no security in following the call to adventure.
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, I hope this child hangs on to that.
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
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The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
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The myth does not point to a fact the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
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The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
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The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
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The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
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