Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLYou’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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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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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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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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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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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