Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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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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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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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