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The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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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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Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.
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If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
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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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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
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The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's the whole point is to find your own way.
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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 have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth.
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You are the Hero of your own Story.
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Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
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