The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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