You’ve got to find the force inside you.

Joseph Campbell

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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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
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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
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
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
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 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
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
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Ability Adventure Heart Inspirational 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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait 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
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
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments

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