Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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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