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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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