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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
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Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
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Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.
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Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
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We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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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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