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"Following your bliss is not self-indulgent, but vital; your whole physical system knows that this is the way to be alive in this world and the way to give to the world the very best that you have to offer. There IS a track just waiting for each of us and once on it, doors will open that were not open before and would not open for anyone else."
"Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required."
"Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up."
"What is required is the finding of that Immovable Point within one's self, which is not shaken by any of those tempests which the Buddhists call 'the eight karmic winds': 1-fear of pain, 2-desire for pleasure; 3-fear of loss; 4-desire for gain; 5-fear of blame, 6-desire for praise; 7-fear of disgrace; [and] 8-desire for fame."
"A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo."
"Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others."
"Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life."
"The place to find is within yourself."
"When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?"
"The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul."
"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."
"The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets."
"If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly."
"The process of nature cannot be evil."
"Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object."
"Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form."
"Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's. Each of us has to find his own way."
"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."
"A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won."
"Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him."