If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are 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 very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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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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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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