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At the darkest moment comes the light.

Joseph Campbell

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
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
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
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
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Goal Heart Broken Life Nature Universe
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
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Power Service Wisdom Yourself
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
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
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

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