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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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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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