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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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White Plains
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If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
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All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
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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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Awe is what moves us forward.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
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First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.
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Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
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Hell is life drying up.
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.
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It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
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Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)
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