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The priest presents for consideration a compound of inherited forms with the expectation (or, at times, even requirement) that one should interpret and experience them in a certain authorized way, whereas the artist first has an experience of his own,…
Mythology and the rites through which its imagery is rendered open the mind . . . not only to the local social order, but also to the mythic dimension of being – of nature – which is within as well…
Mythology and the rites through which its imagery is rendered open the mind . . . not only to the local social order, but also to the mythic dimension of being – of nature – which is within as well…
Living with these things all the time, I can see how there are certain universal patterns for these manifestations. A shaman among the Navajo or in the Congo will be saying things which sound so much like, say, Nicholas Cusanus…
Experience the radiance of the divine presence everywhere.
You’ve got one life to live. Don’t live it for other people. Pay attention to it.
Take guidance and instruction from others, but find your own path.
The job of the artist is to create the new myths.
Find what electrifies and enlivens your heart.
To live the heroic life is to live the individual adventure.
The landscape of myth is the human spirit.
Be willing to get rid of the life you’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for you.
What we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.
Learn to recognize your own depths.
Your life evokes your character. You find out more about yourself as you go on.
Enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path.
Art carries us beyond speech to experience.
The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.
You are a wave on the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone?
Our eyes are the eyes of the earth. Our knowledge is the earth’s knowledge.
Just as people influenced you and played an important role in your life, so you are influencing others and playing an important role in their lives. There is a reciprocal influence, a network of interlocked novels. Who wrote all of…
Our outward-oriented consciousness, addressed to the demands of the day, may lose touch with these inward forces; and the myths, states Jung, when correctly read, are the means to bring us back in touch. They are telling us in picture…
The journey of the hero … I consider the pivotal myth that unites the spiritual adventure of ancient heroes with the modern search for meaning. As always, the hero must venture forth from the world of common-sense consciousness into a…