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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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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.
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We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.
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Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things.
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Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
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The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them.
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There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.
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What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?
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I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive
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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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So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
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The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
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...suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, I hope this child hangs on to that.
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Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.
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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center.
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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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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life
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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
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If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.
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The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.
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