Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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 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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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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