The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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