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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell

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
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
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Day Heart Home Mindset Place Promise Yourself
We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.
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Influence Journey Person Save World
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
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Illumination Late Regret
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
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
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
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
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping.
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Hands Path Right 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
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else’s; the whole point is to find your own way.
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Journey Path Way Yourself
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life

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