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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

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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force 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
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
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Dance Enjoyment Meaning Yourself

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