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

Joseph Campbell

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World
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
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right 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
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
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
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
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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings 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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History Important True Yourself
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Dreams Move Personality Power World

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