"Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."
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"Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold."
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"The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yes’ to it all."
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"If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
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"When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)"
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"The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society."
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"In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams."
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"It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done."
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""Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.""
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"For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us."
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"Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now."
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"The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves."
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"Regrets are illuminations come too late."
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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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"There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth."
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"If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the Earth. And this is the voice of the earth."
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"You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising."
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"You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth."
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"Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself."
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"There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come."
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