It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLMyth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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 problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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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.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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