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“When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created. When people see things as good, evil is created.”

You either control your mind, or it controls you.

Talking about hexing and psychology, and its relationship to mind control:

“The spell only works because the victim believes that spells can be cast, and that it’s possible he or she could be hexed. When the hexed victim is informed that someone has casted a spell on them, they accept that it is possible, and their mind does the rest.”

Utnapishtam said, “there is no permanence. Do we build a house for it to stand forever? Do we seal a contract to hold for all time? Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep forever? Does the flood time of rivers endure? It is only the nymph of the dragonfly who sheds her larvae and sees the sun in his glory. From the days of old, there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are.

“The person who makes persistence his or her watchword discovers that failure finally becomes tired and makes its departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.”

“In no Chinese epoch of imperial times, therefore, are there historians like Herodotus or Thucydides, who were writing for themselves. In China, history was written to endorse the assumption of the Mandate of Heaven.”

“…practically all the great fortunes began either from selling personal services or from the sale of ideas. When you think about it, what else except ideas and personal services can you give in return for riches if you don’t have products or property?”

“It has been said that no book, not even the Bible, has influenced so many people for so long as his Analects, his ‘Sayings’, which have shaped the intelectual and cultural life of the whole of East Asia, Japan and Korea.”

- Talking about Confucius

“I was their mockingjay long before I accepted the role. A new sensation begins to germinate inside me. But it takes until I am standing on a table, waving my final goodbyes to the horse chanting of my name to define it. Power. I have a kind of power I never knew I possessed. Snow knew it as soon as I held out those berries. Plutarch knew when he rescued me from the arena. And Coin knows now.”

“Hungry fingers devour me wanting to feel my flesh.”

“It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.”

“Therefore, it is necessary for men to understand, and be able to see, that through various symbols the same redemption is revealed. “Truth is one,” we read in the Vedas; “the sages call it by many names.”

“…there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope.”

Back then all meaning was in the group, in the great anonymous forms, none in the self expressive individual; today no meaning is in the group—none in the world: all is in the individual. But there the meaning is absolutely unconscious. One does not know towards what one moves. One does not know by what one is propelled. The lines of communication between the conscious and the subconscious psyche have been cut

“The aim [for the Hero] is not to SEE, but to realize that one IS that essence; then one is free to wander as that essence in the world.”

“We think of ourselves as Americans, children of the twentieth century, Occidentals, civilized Christians. We are virtuous or sinful. Yet such designations do not tell what it is to be a man. They denote only the accidents of geography, birth-date and income”

“According to an Aztec version, each of the four elements— water, earth, air, and fire— terminates a period of the world: the eon of the waters ended in deluge, that of the earth with an earthquake, that of air with a wind, and the present con will be destroyed by flame.”

“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”

“Not everyone has a destiny: only the hero who has plunged to touch it, and has come up again—with a ring.”

“For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger.”

Calls back to what The Alchemist said about the heart and its passions. Not following the heart = the heart gets angry and pushes back

“As dreams that were momentous by night may seem simply silly in the light of day, so the poet and the prophet can discover themselves playing the idiot before a jury of sober eyes.”

“And yet, if the monomyth is to fulfill its promise, not human failure or superhuman success but human success is what we shall have to be shown. That is the problem of the crisis of the threshold of the return. We shall first consider it in the superhuman symbols and then seek the practical teaching for historic man.”

“The myths of failure touch us with the tragedy of life, but those of success only with their own incredibility…”

“It is always some little fault, some slight, yet critical symptom of human frailty, that makes impossible the open relationship between the worlds… In spite of the failure recorded, a possibility exists of a return of the lover with his lost love from beyond the terrible threshold.”

(Orpheus & Eurydice)

“…Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons and into spheres of ever-expanding realization.”

“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.”

On bestowing divine gifts to heroes:

“The boos bestowed on the worshipper is always scaled to his stature and to the nature of his dominant desire: the boon [prize, godly gift] is simple a symbol of life energy stepped down to the requirements of a certain specific case.”

“The more I practice, the luckier I get.”

-Arnold Palmer

Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of Confusion For Millions Of People Who Folly Believe That Knowledge Is Power. It Is Nothing Of The Sort. Knowledge Is Only Potential Power. It Becomes Power Only and If eres Organized Into Defence Of Action and directed to a define end.

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or faster man. But soon or late the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”