A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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 you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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