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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Joseph Campbell

It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
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.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Life Lying Recovery Treasure Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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