Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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’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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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