Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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 quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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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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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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