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It's a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts.

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Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death.

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The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

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Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

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The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

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Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

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The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

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Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army.

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If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

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As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.

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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.

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Instead of clearing his own heart, the zealot tries to clear the world.

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The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

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Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.

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You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

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Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

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Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

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We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

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I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

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For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

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Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

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Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

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