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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
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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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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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When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.
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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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For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
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There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
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The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.
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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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