![]() Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If the seed does not die, there is no plant.īread results from the death of wheat. The earth must be broken to bring forth new life. Every process involves breaking something up. You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. If we are hanging onto the form now, we’re not going to have the form next. The Hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed. when we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ![]() Our job is to straighten out our own lives. When we talk about settling the world’s problems, We’re barking up the wrong tree. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. The warrior’s approach is to say “yes” to life: “Yea” to it all. ![]() ![]() The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. The Hero’s Journey (On Living in the World) by Joseph Campbell ![]() When I came across this essay last week, I got sucked in. ![]()
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