Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFollow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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