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Juan Morillo
is on page 334 of 416
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
— Jul 26, 2025 07:07AM
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Juan Morillo
is on page 337 of 416
“It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.”
— Jul 26, 2025 07:22AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 336 of 416
“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.”
— Jul 26, 2025 07:16AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 334 of 416
“…there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope.”
— Jul 26, 2025 07:08AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 333 of 416
“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.”
— Jul 26, 2025 06:57AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 332 of 416
“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”
— Jul 26, 2025 06:55AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 224 of 416
“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.”
— Jul 04, 2025 09:17AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 213 of 416
“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”
— Jun 29, 2025 10:52PM
Juan Morillo
is on page 196 of 416
“Not everyone has a destiny: only the hero who has plunged to touch it, and has come up again—with a ring.”
— Jun 25, 2025 06:49AM
Juan Morillo
is on page 196 of 416
“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
— Jun 25, 2025 06:45AM
Calls back to what The Alchemist said about the heart and its passions. Not following the heart = the heart gets angry and pushes back
Juan Morillo
is on page 189 of 416
“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.”
— Jun 24, 2025 09:12PM
