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I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
Oct 2, 2025
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.
You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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.
Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. The sooner you identify that bliss, which surely resides in the soul of most human beings, the greater your chance of a truly successful life. In the act of creativity, being careful guarantees sameness and mediocrity, which means your work will be invisible. Better to be reckless than careful. Better to be bold than safe. Better to have your work seen and remembered, or you've struck out. There is no middle ground.
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
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.
It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
At the darkest moment comes the light.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
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.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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.
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.