The Beauty of The Eccentric Self

Robin Wolstenholm

“What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.” ~ Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss

“We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.” ~ Joseph Campbell

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Fragment of a poem by Oscar Houck

A wise friend once told me,
most things mean nothing,
but some things
mean everything.

Have you loved?

How well?
How strong?

It’s not too late.
That’s what I think.

Every human carries an interior collection of beings, some evolved and wise and some atavistic and stunted. We are built on a template, but we are also…