A Soulful Journey

 “Myth” as the Greek Statesman Solon said,  is not something that never happened. It’s something that happens over and over and over again. - Krista Tippet

“Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.” - Joseph Campbell

"Men go to be with Rita Hayworth and wake up and find it's only me." -Rita Hayworth It takes some people a lifetime to learn the difference between lust and love.

  “When we pitch camp, we pitch camp in a circle.  When the eagle builds a nest, the nest is in a circle.  When we look at the horizon, the horizon is in a circle,” once said an Indian chief cited by Bill Moyers in The Power of Myth. In the final analysis, isn't all life circular?

“Halacha is to stir the body. Aggadda is to draw the heart.” – Rabbi Louis Jacobs Halacha is the Law.  It is what God demands of us and that we strive to observe.  Aggadda are the tales that infuse the Torah into life.  The stories, parables, and tales are all part of the fabric that breathes life into Torah.  We need both Law and Myth to be whole.  

Many times we look for inspiration from obvious or unobvious sources.  We seek indications of truth and meaning in our world.  But where do we look?  How do we find it?  It may depend on where the inner voices tells us to look: "...the hunter is always directed outward toward the animal.  His life depends on the relationship to the animals.  His mythology is outward turned.  But the planting mythology, which has to do with the cultivation of the plant, the planting of the seed, the death of the seed...and the coming of the new plant, is more inward turned.  With the hunters, the animals inspired the mythology. When a man wanted to gain power and knowledge, he would go not the forest and fast and pray, and an animal would come and teach him. With the planters, the plant world is the teacher.  The plant world is identical in its life sequences with the life of man....there's an inward relationship there."   J oseph Campbell The Power ...