The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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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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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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