Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of 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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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