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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLApocalypse 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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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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