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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

Joseph Campbell

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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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Goal Heart Broken Life Nature Universe
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow 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
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
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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself

I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

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I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.

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