Joseph Campbell

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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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"Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy."

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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

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"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

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"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

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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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"Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy."

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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

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"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

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"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

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"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

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"Love is a friendship set to music."

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"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

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"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

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"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

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"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."

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"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging."

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"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."

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"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

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"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

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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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"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

-Joseph Campbell

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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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"Love is a friendship set to music."

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"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."

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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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"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."

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"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."

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"Love is a friendship set to music."

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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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"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."

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"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

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"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

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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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"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."

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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."

"Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy."

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning."

"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging."

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

"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."

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."

"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."

"Love is a friendship set to music."

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."

"When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."

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