"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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"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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"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer."
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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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"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
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"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
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"Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'"
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"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."
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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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"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."
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"All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you."
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"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that."
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