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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

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
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
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow Yourself
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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
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
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
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 find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World 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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