"A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the dep...

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.
~ Joseph Campbell ~












The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

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"I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the ps...
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its...
"[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your l...
"You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
"Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented they are found. You can no more tell us what your ...
"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be ...
"Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in wh...
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.