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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

Joseph Campbell

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Afraid Yourself
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Divine Live
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
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
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.
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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
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
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin

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