There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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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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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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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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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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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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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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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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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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