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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.

Joseph Campbell

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
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
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
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
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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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Fall Gold Inspirational Perspective Yourself
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
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
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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin

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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