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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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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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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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