The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLI have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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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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