A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLPeople forget facts, but they remember stories.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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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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The 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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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