Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThere’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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When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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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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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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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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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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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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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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The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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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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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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