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We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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White Plains
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.
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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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I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
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How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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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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The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.
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