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Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Joseph Campbell

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 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
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
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
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 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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise 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
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power

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