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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

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
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
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
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
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
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

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