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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

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
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
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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 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

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