Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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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)
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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