The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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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.
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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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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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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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All we really want to do is dance.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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