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The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Awe is what moves us forward.
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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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Heroism is a matter of integrity--beco ming more and more at each step ourselves.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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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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Don't do anything that isn't play
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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
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The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.
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Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person you're giving to the relationship.
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