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.
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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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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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