The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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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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All we really want to do is dance.
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Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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It is within you that the divine lives.
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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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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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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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And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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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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