"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." Joseph Campbell, American Professor and Mythologist
23 Apr 2020
Browsing tag: Joseph Campbell
30 Oct 2017
"If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all."
Joseph Campbell
31 Mar 2017
A friend of mine has recently endured an arduous breakup. It’s a devastating story of major deceit and the misuse of kindness and love that left her a shadow of her former self. Her anticipation and joy at the burgeoning future she pictured in front of them as a couple was annihilated when she discovered some facts that changed everything about their relationship. She was determined not to allow this to destroy her and immersed her life into her work until one day that stopped helping. There was this niggling issue that was
05 Nov 2016
Ikigai (ee-key-guy) is a Japanese term that roughly translates as 'a reason for being'. Okinawans, much revered for their longevity, have a matchless diet of super foods and are practitioners of an ikigai mindset. It's argued that this combination of an Okinawan diet, sensible exercise, and a strong connection for why they get up in the morning make Okinawans extraordinarily healthy in their bodies, minds and spirits, and life-long members of the 100+ club! People with this connection to their ikigai have an illuminating inner
18 Sep 2016
As a lover of patterns and a fond advocate of Montessori education, I was always so happy to have my children show me the tessellations they produced as the pre-cursor to the more complex mathematical concepts the Montessori materials introduce. Beautifully tiled surfaces that repeated designs, trained their naive eyes to search out patterns and see the order and beauty in things. Seeing the symmetry in complex patterns alerted their brains to the possibilities of what could come next. I also remember sitting bored into
24 Jun 2016
My sister has two daughters – and when they first moved to America some years ago, the girls were both in high school. My younger niece, is a kind and gentle soul and a gifted artist. Fairly soon into her school career she knocked up against a Southern Belle by the name of Harper. Harper took an instant dislike to my niece and this scorn was equalled and bettered by my niece. For 6 years these girls became arch rivals and much of my niece's news often referenced the wrong doings of Hog-Faced Harper (as her moniker became). It
22 May 2016
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." Joseph Campbell
29 Jan 2016
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." Joseph Campbell
28 Jan 2016
"All the gods, all the heaven, all the hells are within you." Joseph Campbell
25 Jan 2016
"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths." Joseph Campbell