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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

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
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
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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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 old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True Yourself
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
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
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

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