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If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.

Joseph Campbell

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
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
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
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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

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