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Beauty, Nature And Art
“Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open and exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs…. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth. For the deepest meaning of “belief” refers to being loyal to what the heart already loves… ‘What the heart loves is the cure.’ The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart carries devotion and love.
When followed far enough, simple belief can transform into wisdom… Until the heart opens and the eyes begin to see there is always the danger of blindness and narrowness and the tendency to hold onto narrow ways of being.”
- Michael Meade
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There is not just one style of masculinity
Hercules is the classic hero(because of his Herculean ego strength). But the hero has a thousand faces as Joseph Campbell said…
What about Mercurius who is more more like a mercurial messenger(and more of a mind person, perhaps)? What about Odysseus who probably enjoyed a feed more than a fight, and who had all of those longings and yearnings(and went to all of those different islands of experience and just wanted to make it back to Ithaca)…
