You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
JOSEPH CAMPBELLNo one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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