The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLQuesting… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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