Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFind a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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 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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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