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“Sisyphus taught me one truth that mortals aren't supposed to know— that the gods need mankind far more than the mankind need the gods. The cosmos is a paradox. Gods created the mortals, and mortals created the gods.”

Book:Receiver of Many

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“The realm of the gods is a forgotten dimension of the world we know. And the exploration of that dimension, either willingly or unwillingly, is the whole sense of the deed of the hero. The values and distinctions that in normal life seem important disappear with the terrifying assimilation of the self into what formerly was only otherness.”

Spiritual Mythology

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“The adventure of the hero represents the moment in his life when he achieved illumination - the nuclear moment when, while still alive, he found and opened the road to the light beyond the dark walls of our living death”

Spirituality Mythology

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“From the perspective of the source, the world is a majestic harmony of forms pouring into being, exploding, and dissolving. But what the swiftly passing creatures experience is a terrible cacophony of battle cries and pain.”

Spirituality Harmony Unity Mythology

Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Whether Jesus turning water into wine - whether Mecca moving around following the feet of Nanak - whether Krishna lifting a mountain on his finger - it's all fiction - which were written not to inform the public but to make them accept a certain figure as the authority of their lives.”

Christian Christianity Mythology Theology Fundamentalism Orthodoxy Krishna Rational Thinking Freethought Myths

Book:Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine

“You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof.”

Mythology

Book:Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time

Source: Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time

“...but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise.”

Mythology Psyche

Author:Thomas Bulfinch

“Midnight Steel When Love’s steel draws near it doth but conspire, And pierces she the hearts of all she holds and so desires. Come thou, dear Love, to sleep, rest in your arms and dream but deep. Help me to love all of my days, so that on sweet earth I may stay. —Valkyrie Kari, Musings in the Night”

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Author:douglas laurent

“Godly tug of war / Not recommended for kids. / Or Lesters, either.”

Humor Mythology

Book:The Tower of Nero

Source: The Tower of Nero

“My reader, my dear- you know her, you have been waiting for her: it is the witness, the wandering woman- the punished world's wickedness unfolds! Oh beloved one, my companion- it is I, Melmoth, whose voice you have heard all these hours, all these days...It was I who told you to read, and to bear witness....Didn't you know? Didn't you guess?”

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Book:Melmoth

Source: Melmoth

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