The Cave You Fear to Enter Holds the Treasure You Seek. ~ Joseph Campbell


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A quote that reminds us that following our bliss takes courage. The sleek minimalist design features the look of recycled paper on the cover with black text.Also available with a dark gray (nearly black)background. This blank lined notebook highlights the phrase: The Cave You Fear To Enter Holds The Treasure You Seek. ~ Joseph Campbell Product Details: 6x9 inch, convenient, portable size, (small enough to slip into a bag, purse, or briefcase) Lightly ruled (dark enough to see but light enough to allow your writing to take precedence) 108 cream-colored pages (so much easier on the eyes) Practical no nonsense design will compliment any environment (desk, coffee table, etc.) Matte finish cover gives the book a pleasant feel A fun composition book to: Jot down your brilliant or not so brilliant ideas Take meeting or class notes Make to do lists Map out the master plan Keep track of TV shows, movies, plays, events Explore life's possibilities, etc. Whether it is used to take notes, doodle or just vent frustrations, it doesn't matter. This versatile little book by Artful Cites Notebooks has unlimited uses. A wonderful and thoughtful gift for anyone on your list or you could just buy one for yourself - We'll never tell.




The Hero with a Thousand Faces


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A study of heroism in the myths of the world - an exploration of all the elements common to the great stories that have helped people make sense of their lives from the earliest times. It takes in Greek Apollo, Maori and Jewish rites, the Buddha, Wotan, and the bothers Grimm's Frog-King.




The Treasure You Seek


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Joseph Campbell, the twentieth-century American mythologist and lecturer, once said that “the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Part diary, part social commentary and part inspirational time-capsule, Siobhan Kukolic has created a book brimming with wise and candid observations about taking the first step toward transforming your life. The Treasure You Seek is unique and compulsively readable, offering us a snapshot of a year in our world peppered with anecdotes and advice from some of our best-known philosophers, authors, actors, musicians and politicians. Using quotes from everyone from Henry David Thoreau to Tina Fey, Siobhan weaves together her own experience with the wisdom of others who have something important to tell us. Originally started as a year-long blogging project encouraging people to follow their dreams, Siobhan hopes to inspire others to take a risk and be the change.




Transformations of Myth Through Time


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The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.




Leading from Purpose


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Drawing on ten years of experience working with more than 10,000 executives from companies around the globe, Nick Craig takes you on a revelatory journey to understand your purpose, find clarity and focus, and lead with inspiration. When uncovered, purpose becomes our most fundamental guiding principle. Explaining where true purpose lies and demystifying where it doesn't, Craig offers the methods through which anyone can find their purpose. He identifies three pathways that will assess where you are with your purpose and where you should be going. Illustrated by case studies of leaders from all walks of life and industries, Craig shares their unique stories to show how top leaders are energized by their purpose, finding in it the confidence they need to properly evaluate high-stakes decisions and take the optimal action. The best leaders access their purpose especially when facing the unknown, drawing on the source of it to energize themselves. Purpose also redefines their relationships to stress, allowing them to thrive where others just survived, and to postpone momentary, fleeting rewards in favor of leaving a sustained, meaningful impact. Accessible, methodical, and eminently practical, Leading from Purpose offers the comprehensive toolbox with which everyone -- whether a c-suite executive of behind-the-scenes office worker -- can live out their purpose and achieve success on their own terms. If you find yourself in an organization that is struggling to live its purpose, Craig's insights on how to bring your purpose and the organization's purpose into the same room at the same time is game-changing and will redefine your life and career.




The Thorn and the Blossom


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One enchanting romance. Two lovers keeping secrets. And a uniquely crafted book that binds their stories forever. When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn’t know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed her a medieval romance, he didn’t know it would change the course of his future. It was almost as if they were the cursed lovers in the old book itself . . . The Thorn and the Blossom is a remarkable literary artifact: You can open the book in either direction to decide whether you’ll first read Brendan’s, or Evelyn’s account of the mysterious love affair. Choose a side, read it like a regular novel—and when you get to the end, you’ll find yourself at a whole new beginning.




When Opposites No Longer Attract


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The idea for this book occurred to me one night years ago at a bar on Pittsburgh's South Side. I was with four friends. We met there every week to watch Will & Grace. As we drank our beer, I realized that we were five gay men, all divorced from women, and among us, we had fourteen children. Even though I had met married men on gay sites online, up until that night, I had considered myself something of an anomaly. I was a heterosexual man who didn't realize I was gay until I was married and had children. Before that night at the bar, I had been vaguely aware that my friends and I were meeting a lot of married men--men in straight marriages--in gay bars and other venues in which these supposedly straight men were looking to hook up with other men. That night in the South Side, it hit me that I was not an anomaly. There is something happening in American culture. People are starting to wake up and realize that they are not who they thought they were. They're waking up and finding themselves married to someone that biologically no longer rings their bells. And this phenomenon is much more common than people think.




Follow Your Bliss


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Lichtenbergianism


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Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy gives you nine Precepts, ways to restructure your thinking about how you create and why so that you can just get to work and create the work of your dreams.




The Nightingale Bones


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Someone has been waiting a long time for Alice Towne to arrive in Hawthorne. Two hundred years, in fact. Trying to accept her mother's belief that the women of the Towne family are blessed, not cursed, with supernatural abilities, twenty-seven-year old Alice leaves a disapproving Boston husband to housesit for the summer in tiny Hawthorne, a historic village famous in the 1800s for its peppermint farms and the large, herbal-essence distilleries that flourished around the Massachusetts township. She settles into a beautiful old home with a tragic reputation. There are said to be sightings and sounds from the spirit of a young woman who hanged herself after all her children died there of illnesses in the 1900s. But soon, Alice experiences firsthand encounters that convince her the spirit is not who people think. The truth is shocking, steeped in the town's distillery history and its legends of a local wizard and witchcraft. As she falls in love with a local farmer whose family legacy is as tangled in the magick and the mystery as her own, Alice's fear becomes not whether the past can be resolved . . . but whether it's waiting to claim new victims. Ariel Swan teaches English and creative writing in western Massachusetts where she lives with her husband, three cats, and a small flock of happy chickens. Visit her at Arielswan.com.