"The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. 'Live,' Nietzsche says, 'as though the day were here.' It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal-carries the cross of the redeemer-not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair."
~from The Hero with a Thousand Faces
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
~NHC II.45.29-33
"the old gods have the beauty and goodness of the sun, the sea, the wind, the mountains, great wild animals; splendid, powerful, and dangerous realities that do not come within the sphere of morality, and are in no way concerned about the human race,"
~The Ancient and Continuing Pieties of the Greek World
"If the gods took counsel together about me, then their counsel was good...and even if they have no special thought for me, at least they took thought for the universe; and I ought to welcome and accept everything that happens as a result."
~Meditations 6.44
~from The Hero with a Thousand Faces
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
~NHC II.45.29-33
"the old gods have the beauty and goodness of the sun, the sea, the wind, the mountains, great wild animals; splendid, powerful, and dangerous realities that do not come within the sphere of morality, and are in no way concerned about the human race,"
~The Ancient and Continuing Pieties of the Greek World
"If the gods took counsel together about me, then their counsel was good...and even if they have no special thought for me, at least they took thought for the universe; and I ought to welcome and accept everything that happens as a result."
~Meditations 6.44
Not a lot has been going on really, On a mundane level, I've just been busy with wok. When the weather starts getting nice, the shelter starts filling up.
I've also been listening to the Shins quite a bit and writing. I'm pretty sure that my writer's block is going away, but don't tell anyone. I don't want to scare my muse away.
Well, take care, and don't get too busy with school. Remember to have some fun, too.