The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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