Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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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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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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We’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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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