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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking 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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Divine Live
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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