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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLIf you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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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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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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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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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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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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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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