The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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