When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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 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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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