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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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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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Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.
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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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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
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What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.
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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
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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 folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.
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How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
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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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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.
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Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.
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