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If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
Joseph Campbell
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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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I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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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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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
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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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What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
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If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!
Joseph Campbell
