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The perfect human being is uninteresting.
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
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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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Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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 seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
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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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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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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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Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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