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

Joseph Campbell

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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
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
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition 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
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
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

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