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

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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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Afraid Yourself
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
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 can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings 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
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
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path 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
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Bliss Door Follow Open Yourself
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
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Dreams Move Personality Power World
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive

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