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

Joseph Campbell

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Bliss Door Follow Open 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
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

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