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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Art Carry Wings Yourself
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
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
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
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity 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
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
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World

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