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

Joseph Campbell

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
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.
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Funny People Scream
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
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
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Dreams Myth Privacy Public
It is within you that the divine lives.
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Divine Live Spiritual Yourself
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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Life Privilege Time Yourself
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 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
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
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
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Authority Life Maturity Yourself
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
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force 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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