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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

Joseph Campbell

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

God Inspirational Patience Yourself
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
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
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
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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Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery 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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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength 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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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 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
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself

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