Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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