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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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 theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.
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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
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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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The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, ‘The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.
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The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
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Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
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Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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