You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is – not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
Love is perfect kindness.
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.
If you’re going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not.
So that’s what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
The best we can do is lean towards the light.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Follow your inner heart and the world moves in and helps.
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss.
At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It’s a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.