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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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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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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
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Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.
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Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army
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Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.
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The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
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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.
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The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
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A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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I don't need faith. I have experience.
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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
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What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.
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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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