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

Joseph Campbell

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
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word 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
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
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
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
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
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
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
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person

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