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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

Joseph Campbell

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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy 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’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
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
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself

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