A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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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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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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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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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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