What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLVegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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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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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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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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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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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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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.
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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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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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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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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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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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