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If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
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
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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
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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 way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
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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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Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
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Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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This is an essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified in your consciousness with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier. That is the God.
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Hell is life drying up.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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