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

Joseph Campbell

You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
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
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
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.
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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
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
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
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Dreams Move Personality Power World
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
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
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
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin

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