The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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