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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Joseph Campbell

There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Divine Live
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
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
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
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
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
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
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 goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

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