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Book cover for Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Many scholars believe that just as the Sufi fakirs of Sehwan Sharif model their dreadlocks, red robes and dust-smeared bodies on those of Shaivite sadhus, so the dhammal derives from the damaru drum of Shiva, by which, in his form of ...more
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Joseph Campbell
“I don’t believe in being interested in a subject just because it’s said to be important. I believe in being caught by it somehow or other.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“It is not cynical to admit that the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added and removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and vision and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice!”
Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

Joseph Campbell
“When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider’s nature. It’s instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive?”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“The man or woman who is rarely lost, rarely discovers anything new.”
Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

Emma Donoghue
“How could the child bear not just the hunger, but the boredom? The rest of humankind used meals to divide the day, Lib realized - as a reward, as entertainment, the chiming of an inner clock. For Anna, during this watch, each day had to pass like one endless moment.”
Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

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