The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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 become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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