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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.

Joseph Campbell

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
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
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Dreams Move Personality Power World
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
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
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
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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God Inspirational Patience Yourself
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World

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