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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Joseph Campbell

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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 problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
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

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