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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

Joseph Campbell

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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule 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
When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)
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Experience Forever Possible Truth Yourself
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
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Acceptance Let Go Oneself Planning Wait
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
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Ability Inspirational Oneself Possession World
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.
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Adventure Ego Fulfill Gift Mystery Yourself
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
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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect

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