"It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60)."
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"At first you might find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred space and use it, eventually something will happen. Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again."
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"The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world."
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"When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery."
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"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."
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"Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be."
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"Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them."
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"Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself."
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"Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make."
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"The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth."
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"Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it."
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"The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand."
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"Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification."
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"I should have said, 'Follow your blisters.'"
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"Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself."
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"Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)"
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"Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin."
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"There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world."
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"Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life."
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"The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside."
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