The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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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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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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