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.
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 dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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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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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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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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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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 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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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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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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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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