Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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