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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.”
― Robert A. Monroe

“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure ”
― Joseph Campbell

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Clarity now!!!”
― William Buhlman

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series

“Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.”
― Olaf Stapledon, The Seed and the Flower

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung