Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
All religions are true but none are literal.
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.
When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
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