The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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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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’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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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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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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