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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Joseph Campbell

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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
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
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
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
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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God Inspirational Patience Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
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
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation

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