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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
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
Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.
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End Fact Ignorance Ourselves
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
The dreamer and his dream are the same…the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.
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Dreams Move Personality Power World
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
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
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
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
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
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
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
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
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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself

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