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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

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
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings 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
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time 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
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
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
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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path 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
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
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself

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