Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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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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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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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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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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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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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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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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