A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWe’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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