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Experience, Ideas And Reality
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
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“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as
they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
- Joseph Campbell
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Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a “mythic condition” that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touched by myth carries us to the center where the world is always ending and always beginning again. From there, meaningful changes and transformations can be precipitated in our lives, just as happens to the characters in stories and myths.
When the troubles get deep enough, when the problems become greater than us, when the weight of the world is on our shoulders, mythic imagination can offer more ways to proceed than the more narrow paths of logic and reason. In the heart’s way of knowing and thinking, images and ideas go together. For, there is thought in the heart that is connected to the deepest power of humanity: the power of imagination.
— Michael Meade, “The Genius Myth”
