The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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