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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's the whole point is to find your own way.
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One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.
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The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
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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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
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