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“When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.”

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Michael Meade

Michael Meade is an American author, poet, storyteller, and musician. His works often explore the spiritual journey of humanity and the mythic traditions, beloved by readers worldwide. more

“In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.”

Ifs Feels Heart Said Culture Community Boys Fire Youth Skills And Love Structure Warmth Manhood Elders

Book:Men and the water of life: initiation and the tempering of men

Source: Men and the water of life: initiation and the tempering of men

“When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.”

World Life Inspirational Doe Self Stories Moving Imagination Steps Myth Territory

Author:Michael Meade

“People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.”

People Knows Needs Lying Protect Ego Bounds Stealing Cheat Whatever It Takes

Author:Andrew Samuels

“Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.”

“The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which our existence is vibrating. What we call moods, feelings, affects, emotions, and states are the concrete modes in which the possibilities for being open are fulfilled. They are at the same time the modes in which this perceptive openness can be narrowed, distorted, or closed off.”

States Feelings Given Emotion Existence Conditions Possibility Mood Encounters Openness Concrete Fulfilled Prevailing

Author:Medard Boss

“We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any sense unreal, insubstantial, or illusory because they do not so exist. We merely state that the reality of these nonhuman realms differs from that of human existence, whose primary characteristic is Da-sein (literally being-the-there)... Man as man is present... in a manner wholly different from... inanimate things.”

Men Humans Different States Reality Animal Existence Materials Plant Primaries Realms Characteristics Unreal Human Existence Illusory

Author:Medard Boss

“Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.”

Humans Memories Human Beings Tradition Fundamentals Constant Characteristics Dwelling

Author:Medard Boss

“When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.”

Mere Representation Subjective

Author:Medard Boss

“A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this effort. Stubbornly entrenched behind the words coined by a particular conceptual orientation are its secrete prejudices. Any attempt to open out an adequately human vista onto the phenomena of undisturbed existence must include a critique of the most important idea of traditional biology, physiology, and psychology.”

“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.”

Ifs Men World Humans Mean Existence Achieve Perception Capacity Traditional Persistence Realms Engaged Entity Human Existence Receptive Usage

Author:Medard Boss

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