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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell

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
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
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.
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Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life

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