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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.

Joseph Campbell

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow 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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery 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
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
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong Yourself
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
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
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
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World

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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