Life, Destiny & Death

RIC_3196-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     The secret cause of your death is your destiny. Every life

     has a limitation, and in challenging the limit you are

     bringing the limit closer to you, and the heroes are the

     ones who initiate their actions no matter what destiny

     may result. ... your own life course is the secret cause of

     your death.

       Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Your Life

RIC_2698-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     What can it be that has never yet been seen?
     What has never yet been seen is your own unprecedented
     life fulfilled.
     Your life is what has yet to be brought into being. 

         Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Myths

RIC_2579-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Myths derive from the visions of people searching their own most inward world. Out of myths cultures are founded.

Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Mythology

RIC_2085, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     A whole mythology is an organization of

     symbolic images and narratives,

     metaphorical of the possibilities of human

     experience and the fulfillment of a given

     culture at a given time. 

       Joseph Campbell, 
       "Metaphor and Religious Mystery," Thou Art That: Transforming
       Religious Metaphor