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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Joseph Campbell

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
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
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
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person

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