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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Joseph Campbell

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
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
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True Yourself
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
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
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear Yourself
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right 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
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World

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