When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI 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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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 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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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