There is no security
in following the call to adventure.
Nothing is exciting
if you know
what the outcome is going to be.
To refuse the call
means stagnation.
What you don't experience positively
you will experience negatively.
You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.
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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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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people’s myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts - but if you read the other ones you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
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oh, to be in love with life. oh, to be in love with love.
[angels in america, tony kushner || rainer maria rilke || jojo rabbit, dir. taika waititi || the thing is, ellen bass || joseph campbell || enough, ellen bass || andrew garfield || agatha christie || fleabag, phoebe waller-bridge || the deepest sighs, the frankest of shadows, gang of youths || the heart is a muscle, gang of youths || andrea gibson]
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“We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.”
— Joseph Campbell
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We must be willing to get rid of
the life we've planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.
If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.
Hell is life drying up.
The Hoarder,
the one in us that wants to keep,
to hold on, must be killed.
If we are hanging onto the form now,
we’re not going to have the form next.
You can’t make an omelet
without breaking eggs.
Destruction before creation.
Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living
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“La grotta in cui hai paura di entrare ha il tesoro che cerchi.”
— Joseph Campbell
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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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