Love is a friendship set to music.
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Joseph Campbell
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About Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Joseph CampbellI don't have to have faith, I have experience.
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
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 any…
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
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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