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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
Apache
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Nature

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If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
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The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
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Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8)
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Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.
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Eternity is not a long time rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.
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I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
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A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
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Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
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