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Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

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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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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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White Plains
New York
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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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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.
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So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
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