Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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We 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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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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