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Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

Joseph Campbell

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
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 Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
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
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
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
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function

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