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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Joseph Campbell

The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Life Lying Recovery Treasure 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
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
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
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
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Bliss Door Follow Open Yourself
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
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security 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 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

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