There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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You 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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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