When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLSurvival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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