The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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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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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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