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

Joseph Campbell

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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Old Oneself Proverb Skin
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
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 have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Deep Learning Recognition Yourself
The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.
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Capability God Oneself Worship
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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Big Hero Herself Life
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
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
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
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
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Beyond Carry Experience Function
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
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Devil Encounter God Transformation
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
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
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself

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