returning from the hero's journey
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returning from the hero's journey
- A return home is the anti-thesis to the Odyssean notion of anything heroic. We slip into the fallacies of childhood and revert back into the patterns. Albeit lovingly with the new lessons and perspectives integrated from being away. We follow what’s next based on the strings of context attained through our life choices and non-choices, leading up t... See more
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Sarah Khalid added
- It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m... See more
from On Keeping a Notebook by Joan Didion
Alex Dobrenko added
- What does it mean to be a hero in the liminal? Perhaps not what it means to be a hero in the regular world. It may be that there is an inversion at play — that to survive the underworld, we need to embody the opposing qualities of our old culture. Humility over control. Surrender and acceptance over striving and efforting. This does not mean becomi... See more
from Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic by Alexander Beiner
Stuart Evans and added
- You might be wondering at this point what comes after Finding. The answer is exploring and simply being. In a very real sense, people go from seekers to Finders and then on to explorers. Simply being in existence is amazing, and there’s no shortage of it to explore
from Daily Review | Readwise
john silkey added
On a spiritual path working with different modalities that move forward in simplicity (though it may appear to be complexity - like mahamudra) the next question or feeling is often “ok I’ve done this, so now what?”
The question, as you move forward, morphs into “ok, so now how?”
The question ‘what am I doing’ loses its pull and interest. “How am I being” becomes much more alive, and focuses on the individual as a vessel connected to the whole, and therefore allowing that whole to come through based on how the individual shows up.
It’s Okay to Outgrow the Life You Thought You Wanted
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Patricia Mou and added
Transformation isn't a butterfly. It's the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away. It's huddling in the dark cocoon and then pushing your way out. It's the messy work of making sense of your fortunes and misfortunes, desires and doubts, hang-ups and sorrows, actions and accidents, mistakes and successes, so you can go on and become th
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