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People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Joseph Campbell

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
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow Yourself
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy 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
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
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
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
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
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

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