#mythology

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #inspirational

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. ↗

— Kenneth Anger

#generation #legends #modern #mythology #nobody

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find. ↗

— Phil Cousineau

#inspirational #mythology #change

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#einstein #formula #image #knowledge #mythology

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories. ↗

— Amber Benson

#grew #i #i love #just #kid

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#flourishing #greeks #grew #hollywood #most

I had to find Mr. Brentwood. And I had to save him. Zeus, Inc. had saved the world 50 years ago when we had depleted our energy resources. The very same Zeus, Inc. that now powered a majority of the known world. And that power had come from the man himself. Without him? We would all be plunged into total darkness, knocked back to the literal dark ages. Chaos could and probably would ensue. ↗

— Robin Burks

#fantasy #mythology #age

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#religion #art

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ↗

— Madeline Miller

#war #change