You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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All we really want to do is dance.
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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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