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People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Joseph Campbell

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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings 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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
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
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

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