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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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