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Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

Joseph Campbell

People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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Delight Psycology Water
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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Compassion Journey Purpose Reach Yourself
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
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Clear Path Yourself

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