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

Joseph Campbell

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
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
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 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
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Afraid Yourself
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Life Lying Recovery Treasure Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
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
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
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
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
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

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