You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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 is within you that the divine lives.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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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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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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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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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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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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