Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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