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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
Academic
Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.
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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.
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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
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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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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.
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Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
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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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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