If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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