The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLife has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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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 have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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