When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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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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