You’ve got to find the force inside you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLHow 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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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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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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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