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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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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Joseph Cambell
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There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.
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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
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The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
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I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
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So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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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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Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.
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Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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Awe is what moves us forward.
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Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
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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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In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.
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People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
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We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
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All we really want to do is dance.
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