The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAnd 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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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