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An Grotesque Woman by Quenten Matys (oil on oak, Germany, c. 1513)

[caption id="attachment_19535" align="alignleft" width="228"] A Grotesque Woman by Quenten Matys (oil on oak, Germany, c. 1513)[/caption] The story of Dame Ragnell and Sir Gawain is one of the most popular tales to come down from...

The Handless Girl (Gordon Brown, illustrator, Fairy Tales from Grimm, print, England, 1894, public domain)

“The Handless Maiden,” collected by the Brothers Grimm, is one of the most complete stories of feminine individuation in fairy tales. It addresses the wounding of the feminine by the patriarchal shadow, but it also...

“…to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes.” —Joseph Campbell, Sukhavati: Place of Bliss...

Tristan & Iseult (Copyright © 2011, Gerald McDermott. Used with permission.)

One of my favorite quotes by Joseph Campbell, in Myths to Live By, refers to Love as the burning point of life. When he elaborates, what we come to understand is that life is sorrowful,...

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