The Hero Journey: “If you realize what the real problem is – losing yourself, giving yourself to some higher end, or to another – you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation of consciousness. And what all the myths have to deal with is transformations of consciousness of one kind or another. You have been thinking one way; you now have to think a different way…” Joseph Campbell, “On The Hero Journey.”
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Today: flowers beginning to die, in great beauty. Something to be learned.
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My assistant, giving me strength…
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I always look forward to your flower pictures but my favorite is the way Zip always takes the lead..
Yes, I’m glad, but I am also conscious of the fact that he has nothing at all to do with flowers other than visitng me…It sometimes feels like pandering to me..