Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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