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Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

Joseph Campbell

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Authority Life Maturity 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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait 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
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
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
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
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 has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy 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
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
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

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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