Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou 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.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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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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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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All we really want to do is dance.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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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.
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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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It is within you that the divine lives.
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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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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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