returning from the hero's journey
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returning from the hero's journey
In the hero's journey, the wanderer returns home after years of exile, struggle, and suffering. He brings a gift for the people. That gift arises from what the hero has seen, what he has endured, what he has learned.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
How Personal Transformation Happens
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I wasn’t just letting go of a job, I was letting go of how I saw myself and how I imagined others saw me. I disappeared for a while. I walked, I slowed down, I lived more internally. Then when I was ready to explore more actively and come back into the world, I was very intentional about maintaining a level of silence and stillness.
Lola • Splash
He needed to practice coming back to the self-awareness and rigor of self-care when he forgot, to work on communication with his parents and partners, and to allow himself to pursue true joy, even when it seemed scary, put him at odds with his folks, or made him an outsider for a time.
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
Stories like these are core to what mythologist Joseph Campbell began to identify in the 1940s as the Hero’s Journey theme in global storytelling, a theme that I was grateful to start understanding in my midtwenties. Hero’s Journey stories convey the transformation of a person—almost always a Quarterlifer—from one level of consciousness to another.
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