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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
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
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 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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective 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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
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
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
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
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
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
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

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