We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen 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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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