No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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