A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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