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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRegrets are illuminations come too late.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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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 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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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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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