At the darkest moment comes the light.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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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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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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