God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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 purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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