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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

Joseph Campbell

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
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
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
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
You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
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
And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.
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Alone Darkness Decision Grace Journey
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
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
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
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
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 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
Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.
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Fools Practical Wisdom World
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
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

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

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