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

Joseph Campbell

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
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
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security 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
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 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
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
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Goal Heart Broken Life Nature Universe
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
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive

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