A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLAt the darkest moment comes the light.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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 you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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At the darkest moment comes the light.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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