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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)

Joseph Campbell

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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
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
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
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
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 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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing

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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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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