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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.

Joseph Campbell

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 hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous 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
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
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
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past

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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