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

Joseph Campbell

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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
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
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
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
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World

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