“That is the problem of Dante’s Divine Comedy too. The crisis comes in the “middle of the way of our life,” when the body is beginning to fade, and another whole constellation of themes comes breaking into your dream world. Dante says that, in the middle year of his life, he was lost in a dangerous wood. And he was threatened there by three animals, symbolizing pride, desire and fear. Then Virgil, the personification of poetic insight, appeared and conducted him through the labyrinth of hell, which is the place of those fixed to their desires and fears, who can’t pass through to eternity.” –Joseph Campbell
If you hold onto the past you cannot access the possibilities of the future. Be open. That is the gateway to heaven while the other is the pathway to hell.
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