Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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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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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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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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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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