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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.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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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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“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.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
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