Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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