Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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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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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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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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