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When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Joseph Campbell

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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
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
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery 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 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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way 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
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 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
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream

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