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Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
Joseph Campbell
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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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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.
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The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.
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You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
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There is a condescension on the part of the infinite to the mind of man. That is what looks like God.
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The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
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Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
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When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
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Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
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