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All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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White Plains
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What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
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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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Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.
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Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
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The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
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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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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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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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...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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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
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The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
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