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Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Joseph Campbell

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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule 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
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step 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
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Life Lying Recovery Treasure Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
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
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

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

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