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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.

Joseph Campbell

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
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
I have found that you have only to take that one step toward the gods, and they will then take ten steps toward you. That step, the heroic first step of the journey, is out of, or over the edge of, your boundaries, and it often must be taken before you know that you will.
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Boundary God Hero Journey Step Yourself
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.
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Best Conversation Understand
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
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Learning Wave World
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
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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
At the darkest moment comes the light.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Moments
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
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
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story

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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