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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
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
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
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
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret

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