Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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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 think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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I 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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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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