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Joseph Campbell

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

Life

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Each person’s true purpose or goal in life is not found in the external world but within their own individual capacity to experience things uniquely. This means that what they are meant to discover or achieve is entirely personal and cannot be duplicated by anyone else.

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