When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLNothing 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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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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