If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAll the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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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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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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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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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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