All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLFind a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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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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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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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 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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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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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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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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When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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