If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLSurvival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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The 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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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