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All we really want to do is dance.

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call following your bliss.
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Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.
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The idea of the Bodhisattva is the one who out of his realization of transcendence participates in the world. The imitation of Christ is joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.
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The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.
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The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
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The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.
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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
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For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
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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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