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No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Joseph Campbell

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning 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 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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
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
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story

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