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When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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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 myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.
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What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.
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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
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Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.
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Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Eternity is not a long time rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.
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You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.
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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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The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in which all the dream characters are dreaming too, has in India enchanted and shaped the entire civilization.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
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Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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