“I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.” HumansHelpingProcessHuman BeingsFailingExtremesMythRealising Author:Michael Sheen
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.” WorldLoveInspirationalHumansAgeAbleHappinessLyingPeaceLeadershipHuman BeingsFamilyGreatnessSelf ImprovementGardenPersonal GrowthMythImprovementInner PeaceHumankindSelf DevelopmentRemakes Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.” MindHumansWellsChildrenHuman BeingsDoubtMaterialsAdultsBuiltPhilosophicalConstantChaosMythTalesLandscapeFairyLegendsConstructionFairy TaleShelterComponentsSiege Author:Yi-Fu Tuan