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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

Joseph Campbell

You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave 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 privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
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
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
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
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True 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

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