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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

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow Yourself
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World

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