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You’ve got to find the force inside you.

Joseph Campbell

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
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach 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
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
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
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
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
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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