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If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.

Joseph Campbell

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
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
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 be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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
Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
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
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right Yourself

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