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

Joseph Campbell

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
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
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
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
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret

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