Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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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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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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