You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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