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The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

Joseph Campbell

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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
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Creativity Guide Heart Save Society
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
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
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Sacred Space 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
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
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
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

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