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The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

Joseph Campbell

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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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
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
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous 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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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

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