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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

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
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Experience Happiness Life Live Pain
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
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
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Break Live Ourselves Problem Talk Tree World Wrong
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
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Life Lying Recovery Treasure 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
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
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Life Reach Wall Wrong Yourself
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
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself
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
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
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
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Follow Life Mystery Path Problem Yourself
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
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World
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
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
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
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.
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Artist Function Problem Spiritual
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’
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Hell Myself Need
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
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
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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End Expectation Figure Life Movie Question
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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Achievement Adventure Courage Fear Life
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life

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