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

Joseph Campbell

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
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Challenge Deep Life Opportunity Ourselves Power
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
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Life Old Oneself Planning Skin Willing
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
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Art Experience Goal Life
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
You’ve got to find the force inside you.
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Force Yourself
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Alive God Inspirational Life Pain Suffering
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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Burn Happiness Pain Place
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
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
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 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 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
Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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Art Carry Wings Yourself
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.
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God Intellectual Level Simplicity Thinking
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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