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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
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
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
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
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
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
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

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