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I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

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
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -
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There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is beingwho you are.The goal of the hero tripdown to the jewel pointis to find those levels in the psychethat open, open, openand finally open to the mystery of your Selfbeing Buddha consciousnessor the Christ.That's the journey.
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There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
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The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.
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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
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You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
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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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He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
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