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Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’

Joseph Campbell

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Divine Live
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
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
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
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path

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