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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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 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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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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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