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Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Joseph Campbell

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
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
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
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
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
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
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Bliss Door Follow Open Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
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
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave 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

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

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