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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Joseph Campbell

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
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
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
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
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

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Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

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