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A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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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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So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
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Eternity is not a long time rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.
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As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face
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God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
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There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
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Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
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The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
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Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.
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Everything starts with a story.
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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
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The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
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