Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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.
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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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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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