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You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

Joseph Campbell

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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History Important True Yourself
The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Journey Mystery Open Tear 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.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

Divine Live
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
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
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
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
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
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
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Darkness Life Lost Need
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.
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Burn Life Love Pain Point Sorrow Yourself
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
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Follow Kind Life Track Wait Yourself
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
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
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
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

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