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Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.
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
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Joseph Cambell
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This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.
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The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
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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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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
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When you are falling --- Dive!
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The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
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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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Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.
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The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.
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