Quote of the Week

"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world."

~Joseph Cambell, The Power of Myth

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People keep asking me if I have to have 12 neckpieces and an installation and I always answer yes. And here's why:

"The number thirteen is the number of transformation and rebirth. . . Thirteen is the number of getting out of the field of the bounds of twelve into the transcendent."

~Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

So, entirely self imposed, but just as much a requirement as anything set forth by the graduate school. Maybe more so. If I don't make it, I don't make it, and I think I'll be ok. But if I do make it, it will make my thesis that much more connected.

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"Sometimes we look for great wealth to save us, a great power to save us, or great ideas to save us, when all we need is that piece of string."

~Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth

Searching, searching, searching for my piece of string. . .

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The impetus for Sacra Sancta:

"In India, I have seen a red ring put around a stone, and then the stone becomes regarded as an incarnation of the mystery. Usually you think of things in practical terms, but you could think of anything in terms of its mystery. . . .That is the point of what is called consecration."

~Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

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Moyers: "In this sense, unlike heros such as Prometheus or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world, but to save ourselves.

Campbell: "But in doing that, you save the world."

~ The Power of Myth

In other words, I can not hope to save the world if I can not first save myself. In saving myself I save the world.

By the way, I totally found The Power of Myth at my local Barnes and Nobel in hardback for $8. Just sayin'.