Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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Life 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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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