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

Joseph Campbell

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
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
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
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition 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
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security 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

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