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. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLLove 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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When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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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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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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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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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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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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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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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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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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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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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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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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