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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
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -
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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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You've got to find the force inside you.
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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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The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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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 very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
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Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.
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Anything you do has a still point. When you are in that still point, you can perform maximally.
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Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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