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If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

Joseph Campbell

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength 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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World
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
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
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
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
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
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
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
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
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
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong 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
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
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream

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