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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

Joseph Campbell

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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
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
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
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
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
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Afraid 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
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path

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