Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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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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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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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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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.
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