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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 (Joseph Campbell)

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek (Joseph Campbell)

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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 (Joseph Campbell)

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There goes my hero, watch him as he goes (Foo Fighters)

I love this model of the archetypal journey of the hero (the only context where 'journey' should be used). I return to it often in my daydreams. I love that it never ends, that 'death' is a stage and that mentors and helpers are crucial components. I love that it starts with the call to adventure!

Lucks on your table tonight (Sharon O'Neill)

The feverish flux of human interface (Rush)

The influence of a vital person vitalises  - Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss (Joseph Campbell)

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: If you follow your bliss , you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss , you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of... being helped by hidden hands? JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.