Tag: Joseph Campbell
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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.
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.
Joseph Campbell
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Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
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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.
Joseph Campbell
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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.
Joseph Campbell
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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.
Joseph Campbell
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
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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.
Joseph Campbell