The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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 we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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There’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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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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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