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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Joseph Campbell

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
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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Best Conversation Understand
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
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
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True Yourself

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