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You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Joseph Campbell

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
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
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place

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