It is within you that the divine lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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 god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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