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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

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
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective 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
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
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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God Inspirational Patience Yourself
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
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
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
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
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Dreams Move Personality Power World
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

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