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People forget facts, but they remember stories.

Joseph Campbell

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
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
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
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
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual 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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
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
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Goal Heart Broken Life Nature Universe
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
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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
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
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

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