Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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 best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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