If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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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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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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