We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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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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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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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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 big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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