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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

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
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
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
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
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
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 goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

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