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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Joseph Campbell

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
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
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
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
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
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time 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
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
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
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective 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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself

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