It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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