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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

Joseph Campbell

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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
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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Best Conversation Understand
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 within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Afraid Yourself
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

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

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Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

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