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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

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
Rapture
Seeking
Alive

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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
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To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
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Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
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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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Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
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God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
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If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
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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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It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
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Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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