8.5.24

Thought

If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens, opens, opens up all along the line. I’m not superstitious, but I do believe in spiritual magic, you might say. I feel that if one follows what I call one’s “bliss” - the thing that really gets you deep in the gut and that you feel is your life - doors will open up. They do! They have in my life and they have in many lives that I know of.

Theres a wonderful paper by Schopenhauer, called “An Apparent Intention of the Fate of the Individual,” in which he points out that when you are at a certain age - the age I am now - and look back over your life, it seems to be almost as orderly as a composed novel. And just as in Dickens’ novels, little accidental meetings and so forth turn out to be the main features in the plot, so in your life. And what seem to have been mistakes at the time, turn out to be directive crises. And then he asks: “Who wrote this novel?”

– Joseph Campbell, An Open Life

Quote

Alan Watts on myth: 

“The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.”

Moment of Gratitude 

I’m grateful for time spent away from the internet and constant news cycle to reset.

What are you grateful for today? 

Happy Monday,

Val