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

Joseph Campbell

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
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Life Meaning Question Yourself
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
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Adventure Bliss Excitement Follow Life Security Yourself
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
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Compassionate Fundamental Religious Thinking Yourself
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
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Consciousness Spiritual Thinking Transformation True
It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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Demon Himself Man Tame World
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space 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
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
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Bliss Door Follow Open Yourself

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