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1904 - Born on the 26th of March in White Plains, New York.
1921 - Graduated from the Canterbury School (Connecticut).
He studied biology and mathematics, at Dartmouth College but decided that he preferred the humanities.
1925 - Transferred to Columbia University and received his B.A. in English literature.
1927 - Awarded M.A. in Medieval literature at Columbia University.
- Received a fellowship provided by Columbia to study in Europe.
1934 - He was offered a position as professor at Sarah Lawrence College.
1938 - Married one of his former students, dancer and dance instructor Jean Erdman.
1949 - Released "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" introduced his idea of the monomyth.
1969 - Wrote "Where the Two Came to Their Father".
- Wrote an essay Flight of the Wild Gander.
1972 - Authored the Myths To Live By.
- Retired from Sarah Lawrence College.
1975 - With M. J. Abadie The wrote Mythic Image.
1983 - Authored "The Way of the Animal Powers".
1987 - Died on 31st of October in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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- "What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."
- "Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience."
- "Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
- "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
- "When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."
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