All we really want to do is dance.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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