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You’ve got to find the force inside you.

Joseph Campbell

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
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 not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
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
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
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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path 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

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