Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLOpportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Life 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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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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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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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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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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