The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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 you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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