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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

Joseph Campbell

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
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True 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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
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
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
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

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