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Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Joseph Campbell

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
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
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy 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
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
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
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself

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