The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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