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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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
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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
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
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
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
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself

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