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I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

Joseph Campbell

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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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
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
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait 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
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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

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