This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

Joseph Campbell

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Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

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Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

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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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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

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We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

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It is within you that the divine lives.

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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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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

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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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The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.

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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

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Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

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The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

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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.

Joseph Campbell

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The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

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God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.

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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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