When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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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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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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’ve got to find the force inside you.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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 myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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 dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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