It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLRespect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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