Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Jackie Chan is a myth.
In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.
There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
. . . the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Conscience is better served by a myth.
Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who are involved in genuine, laborious, demanding, transrational spiritual practice? This is very difficult, because both markets are referred to as "spiritual," but these two camps really don't get along very well-one is mostly translative, the other is mostly transformative, and they generally disapprove of each other-so how do you put them into one magazine without alienating them both?
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it.
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
myself. . . is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth