The privelege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Quotes by Joseph Campbell
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Schopenhauer's wonderful piece on 'An Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual': how the continuities of a lifetime seem, in the end, to have been plotted out by a novelist - all the accidents, apparently uncoordinated as they first occur, concurring finally toward the shaping of an order.
'In Guatemala our bus got stuck in the mud - it was aways getting stuck! The driver said, "I need five strong men to move the bus." (There were plenty of guys on the trip.) Joe, in his seventies, was the first one out of the bus.' (Lynne Kaufman)
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
When you no longer are compelled by desire and fear . . . when you have seen the radiance in eternity from all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
"The Universe always strikes you at your weakest point because thats what most needs strengthening."
"Events are the language of the Universe."
Seek to know the power that is within you.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

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