You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’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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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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