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All we really want to do is dance.

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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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 psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
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
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
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Energy Human Manifestation Open Secret
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True Yourself
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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Achievement Alive Association Engagement Purpose
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
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
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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
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

All we really want to do is dance.

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