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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

Joseph Campbell

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
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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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
There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path.
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Divine Live
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
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
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
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
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
All we really want to do is dance.
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Dance Move One Liner

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