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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.

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
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The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.
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The myth does not point to a fact the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
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There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia one was a man, and he drank water and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.
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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
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This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
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The function of artists is the mythologization of the world.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
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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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The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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