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

Joseph Campbell

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
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
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
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
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
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
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
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time 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
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
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

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