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

Joseph Campbell

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
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
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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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
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
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
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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past

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