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

Joseph Campbell

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
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
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
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
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational 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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
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
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
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
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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God Inspirational Patience 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
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

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