Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.
In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.
But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire. . . there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
The mythic is everywhere.
Now is the time to lead your ideal life.
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.
Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too quietly for her to hear them. Some would argue that things were going so insiduously wrong that the neurons themselves initiated events that would lead to their own destruction. Whether it was molecular murder or cellular suicide, they were unable to warn her of what was happening before they died.
School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.