Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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