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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
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Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.
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Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
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The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.
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At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
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One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
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Your ego is your embodiment and your self is your potentiality and that's what you listen to when you listen for the voice of inspiration and the voice of 'What am I here for? What can I possibly make of myself?'
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At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again.
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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.
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Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.
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The function of artists is the mythologization of the world.
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For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
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First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.
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Questing... is not an ego trip it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
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