![]() To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what mythology does for you."Ĭampbell: "I mean a vocabulary in the form of not words but acts and adventures, which connotes something transcendent of the action here so that you always feel in accord with the universal being." (p. ![]() 49)Ĭampbell: "I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To identify with that divine immortal aspect of yourself us to identify with divinity." (p. In India, the god who lies in me is called the "inhabitant" of the body. It is a basic mythic idea of the god who becomes many in us. Moyers: "What does it mean, "Eternity is in love with the productions of time? (said by William Blake)Ĭampbell: "The source of temporal life is the eternity. The photograph above is from the book's chapter, The Hero's Adventure, with a caption of Otto Rank's declaration that "everyone is a hero in birth, where he undergoes a tremendous transformation, from the condition of a little water creature living in a realm of amniotic fluid, into an air breathing mammal which ultimately will be standing." Here is more wisdom that needs sharing: ![]() ![]() I am so much enjoying reading and re-reading it. Hidden away but in plain sight at the Goodwill Store was Joseph Campbell's, The Power of Myth. ![]()
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