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The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!

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
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
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.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
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
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World
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
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy 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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments

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