If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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And 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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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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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. –
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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