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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

Joseph Campbell

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
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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
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
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
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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

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