The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
JOSEPH CAMPBELLThe conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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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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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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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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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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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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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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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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