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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
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Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
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There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.
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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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Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
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Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
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For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.
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You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.
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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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