"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

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.
~ Joseph Campbell ~












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