If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere 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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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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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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