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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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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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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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