If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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