The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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