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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

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
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
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 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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
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
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself

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