Joseph Campbell
“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. |
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known, “The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. |
Herman Hesse
"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. |
"I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference." |