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Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.
— Joseph Campbell
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
— Joseph Campbell
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
— Joseph Campbell Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
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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.
— Joseph Campbell
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
— 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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