The Path of Living Deeply 🐌
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”
Joseph Campbell | Pantheism.com
“Virtues are forged when no one else is looking and imparted when a hand is reaching up for us to grab it. In these defining moments, there is not much to be said. Only silent vistas of clarity where ancient human emotions are reciprocated.”
Challenges forge virtues
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
Metanoia — the Journey of Changing One's Mind, Heart, Self Or Way of Life
Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer
On Slow Living
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone... See more
for the heroes of all time have gone before us.
The labyrinth is thoroughly known ...
we have only to follow the thread of the hero path.
And where we had thought to find an abomination
we shall find a God.
And where we had thought to slay another
we shall slay ourselves.
Where we had thought to travel