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

Joseph Campbell

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
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
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
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
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
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

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