Joseph Campbell, there’s only one way https://t.co/3QfqdxDr8S
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Joseph Campbell, there’s only one way https://t.co/3QfqdxDr8S
As we said before, any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,”
from Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition by Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner,
- Now, there’s a wonderful work of Schopenhauer’s; he says, “When you reach a certain age,” and he wrote this when he was in his 60s or so, “and look back over your life, it seems to have had an order. It seems to have had been composed by someone. And those events that when they occurred seemed merely accidental and occasional and just something tha... See more
from Ep. 6: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth -- 'Masks of Eternity' | BillMoyers.com by Joseph Campbell
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This lifetime is yours, just yours. You may be involved in relationships and love others, but basically what you make of your life and how you pass through it is your evolution. That is why adversity is useful. In desperation, we begin to pull on our unlimited power; and we realize that anything can be changed, that suffering is a product of the in
... See morefrom The Secrets of Life: Revised & Updated by Stuart Wilde