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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
Alive
Rapture
Seeking

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It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.
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The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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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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Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.
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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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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around 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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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
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Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.
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You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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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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There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.
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