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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

Joseph Campbell

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Experience Forever Possible Truth 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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings 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
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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself

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