Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLNothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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