We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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 goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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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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