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“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”
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“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
― Hero With a Thousand Faces
― Hero With a Thousand Faces
“The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.”
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.”
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“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.”
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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