It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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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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I 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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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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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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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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