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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student 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
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
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
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
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
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
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
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity 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
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

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