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There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, I hope this child hangs on to that.
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Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person you're giving to the relationship.
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Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
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Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
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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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The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.
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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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Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.
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It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
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We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
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