Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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