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Joseph Campbell was an American writer, scholar, and mythologist, renowned for his studies of world mythology. His work, 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces', has had a profound impact on modern culture, widely used in literature, film, and psychology fields.

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“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”

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Book:A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.”

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“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.”

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Book:A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“Awe is what moves us forward.”

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Book:A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”

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Book:A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Awe is what moves us forward.”

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Book:A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“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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Book:The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

Book:The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos.”

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Book:The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”

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Book:The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

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“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.”

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“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”

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“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”

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Book:The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”

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Book:A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

About the Author

Born: March 26, 1904
Died: October 30, 1987
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 134

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The Power of MythRelated source material

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A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of LivingRelated source material

The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & WorkRelated source material

The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive MythologyRelated source material

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious MetaphorRelated source material

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Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal TransformationRelated source material

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