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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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  Morning, Creative, Use

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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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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  Yoga, Positivity, Free Your Mind

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• The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.' And so it starts.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.

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  Mean, Littles, Enthusiasm

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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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  Inspirational, Way, Path

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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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  Doors, Path

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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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  Happiness, Self, People

  "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell, (p. 193), 1991.

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• When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.

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  Life, Doors, Desire

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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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  Life, Wall, Ladders

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• Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

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  Art, Wings, Entanglement

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• The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Thinking

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• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

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  Adventure, Dark, Opportunity

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Arriving

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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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  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

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  Knowing Who You Are, Miracle, Conditions

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

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  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

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  Art, Speech, Function

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• Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

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  Inspirational, Truth, Important

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• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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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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  Life, Track, Waiting

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• Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'

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  Needs, Hell, Happens

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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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  Quests, Release, Ecstasy

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.14, Anchor

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• If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

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  Ideas, Fixed, Ifs

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• You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

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  Mature, Authority

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