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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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