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

Joseph Campbell

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear 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
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth 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
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
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
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
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
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True

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