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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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 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
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
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
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective 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

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

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