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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
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
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
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Artist Love Mistake Perfection Person
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
Change the focus of the eye. When you have done that, then the end of the world as you formerly knew it will have occurred, and you will experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere, here and now.
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Change Divine End Experience Focus Presence Radiant World Yourself
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
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
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
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
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True

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