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When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

Joseph Campbell

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective 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
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
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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