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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

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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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
Orator
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
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God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
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When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.
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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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The perfect human being is uninteresting.
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Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
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People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
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Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
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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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What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
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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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