Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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