What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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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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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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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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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