#rapture

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. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#prize #pursuing #rapture #vanquished

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

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#easily #get #left #lie #out