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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth 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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
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
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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

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