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If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.

Joseph Campbell

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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
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 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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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
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
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong Yourself
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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public

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