“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.”
¤ Joseph Campbell ¤
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The Experience of Being Alive
FanficWhat happens to characters in books when the book isn't being read? Where do they go? What do they do? Find out through the eyes of Binny Jordan, a character in a relatively new book, The Madrona Heroes Register, as she and her friends, Hermione Gra...
