Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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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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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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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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We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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