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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
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
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 not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
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
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
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
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
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
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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