If you are falling …. dive. —Joseph Campbell

 

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You feel you are hedged in; you dream of escape; but beware of mirages. Do not run or fly away in order to get free: rather dig in the narrow place which has been given you; you will find God there and everything. God does not float on your horizon, he sleeps in your substance. 

Vanity runs, love digs. If you fly away from yourself, your prison will run with you and will close in because of the wind of your flight; if you go deep down into yourself it will disappear in paradise.


—Gustave Thibon

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We’re in a freefall into future. We don’t know where we’re going. Things are changing so fast and anxiety comes along. All you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. 

It’s a very interesting shift of perspective and that’s all it is, joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.


—Joseph Campbell

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The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling, they're given wings.


—Rumi

(notes to self