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It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Joseph Campbell

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
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
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
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
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself

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