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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Joseph Campbell

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise 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
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
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
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
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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
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
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
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

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