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

Joseph Campbell

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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective 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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
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
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
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
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Goal Heart Broken Life Nature Universe
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments

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