Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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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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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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And 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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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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