A digest for conscious living
“Thus phrased, in the extremest terms, the problem may sound remote from the affairs of the normal human creatures. Nevertheless, every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid in the end to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late. The whole sense of the ubiquitous myth of the hero’s passage is that it shall serve as a general pattern for men and women, wherever they may stand along the scale. Therfore it is formulated in the broadest terms. The individual has only to discover his own position with reference to this general human forumula, and let it then assist him past his restricting walls. Who and where are his ogres? Those are the reflections of the unsolved enigmas of his own humanity. What are his ideals? Those are the symptoms of his grasp of life.”
– Joseph Cambell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Goodnight,
Kikta