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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
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
Misunderstood
Mythology
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If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.
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All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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You've got to find the force inside you.
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Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
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If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.
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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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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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How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
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The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)
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With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
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Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
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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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There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia one was a man, and he drank water and one was a demon, and he drank filth. What you get is a function of your own consciousness.
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.
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