Possibilities

Five Oaks 1 (2013, 9.12), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     If your mind is empty,
     it is always ready for anything;
     it is open to everything.
     In the beginner's mind
     there are many possibilities,
     in the expert's mind there are few.

        Shunryu Suzuki

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