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

Joseph Campbell

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
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
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 become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
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
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
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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
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
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
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner

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