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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

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
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.
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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence Yourself
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
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 goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
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
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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself

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