I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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.
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.
It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.
Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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.
It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.
The insecure way is the secure way.
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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.
Whatever the hell happens, say, 'This is what I need.'
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
It is within you that the divine lives.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.
We save the world by being alive ourselves.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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