All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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 goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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 is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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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 you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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