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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Joseph Campbell

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong Yourself
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments

Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

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