When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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