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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

Joseph Campbell

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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity 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
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself Yourself
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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

There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

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There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.

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