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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAnd so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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