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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.

Joseph Campbell

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
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
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational Yourself
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking

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