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

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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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God Inspirational Patience Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
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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Fulfill Important Personal Realization Transcendence 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
When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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God Inspirational Motivational Open Path True Yourself
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Life Lying Recovery Treasure 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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous 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 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
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
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right 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
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World

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