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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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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
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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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So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
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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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Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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The function of the artist is the mythologization of the culture and the world. In the visual arts there were two men whose work handled mythological themes in a marvelous way: Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso.
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The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.
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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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If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.
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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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