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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

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.
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Feeling Moments Negative Positive Strength Yourself
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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God Hell Philosophy Yourself
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
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
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
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
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
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
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 quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
If you follow your bliss…the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
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Follow Life Oneself 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
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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power

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