Michelle Pellizzon
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Michelle Pellizzon
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
For humans to have been shaped long ago to treat the sacred in its appropriate sacred manner, the sacred must have been around long ago, and important enough then to shape our natures. That is, if the sacred is real, it must be big and ancient.
Truly Sacred Things
the best stories to tell are the ones that have been told over and over again, and the stories of competitive mimesis and of deification followed by scapegoating are the oldest and best of all
Byrne Hobart • Manias and Mimesis: Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles
Novelist and mystic Romaine Rolland says, “There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
You have to create your own mythology if the world isn’t supplying it.
Shore Leave • Like Shining From Shook Foil
One of the benefits of producing consistent creative work is that it comes with a narrative network effect: The more people who know and love the story of an object, the stronger the tie to that object becomes.