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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
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
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word 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
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem 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
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
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)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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