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Joseph Campbell

"I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations."

-- Joseph Campbell

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“The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.”

Source : Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions
“Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families and businesses already understand how energy costs impact their lives and make decisions accordingly.”
“I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.”
“I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.”
“It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption.”

Source : "Women As The Protectors Of Life II". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1996.
“Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.”
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”

Source : "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.

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