It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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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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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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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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