"You've got to find the force inside you."
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"It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse."
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"Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel."
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"Love is exactly as strong as life."
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"Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare."
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"Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind."
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"You are the Hero of your own Story."
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"Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free."
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"At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one."
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"Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it."
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"I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health."
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"In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences, there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which our brain is simply an organ. Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain is an organ of consciousness. It focuses consciousness and pulls it in and directs it through a time and space field. But the antecedent of that is the universal consciousness of which we are all just a part."
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"If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential."
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"Religon is misunderstood mythology"
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"Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity."
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"The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence."
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"To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss."
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"Seek to know the power that is within you."
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"There is no security in following the call to adventure."
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"The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life."
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