"The most basic level of maintaining my self-image is just holding myself back from acting on my impulses. I am constantly bombarded by bizarre, nonsensical urges, and if I didn’t care about my identity, I would just do all of them.
It would be fucking mayhem."
This quote from Hyperbole and a Half, in fact the two final chapters of the book, regarding personal identity.
"Each of us, by virtue of our pattern of myths, participates in these archetypes; they are the structure of human existence. It is not necessary to be a scholar to be influenced by them; it is only necessary that one existentially participate in human life." Rollo May, The Cry For Myth
"I believe in metaphors. Metaphors are real. That is why the Scriptures are composed not only of the proverbs and prophecies that Pastor McCay, in the pages that follow, spouts in involuntary reflex; but that is why those Scriptures surround and embrace those pronouncements in stories - the allegories and metaphors - that teach us our values. Here before you is a clash of good against evil, of course, but more than that. There are clashes of judgement, clashes among different interpretations of what is good and what is justice, and clashes over who is to suffer the wages of the evil born of our best intentions. This is a love story. This is a story of hatred and rage. This is the Iliad. This is the story of how we - we ourselves; you and I - choose to use whatever special powers and abilities we have, when even those powers and abilities are only a little bit beyond those of mortal men." Elliott S. Maggin, in the introduction to the graphic novel Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Then these two:
"Myths are archetypal patterns in human consciousness, as Joseph Campbell and others have pointed out." The Cry For Myth, Rollo May
"It was the early 1970s and young Hilmar was searching for meaning. By chance, he met Joseph Campbell, the great scholar of myths." The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner
This quote from Hyperbole and a Half, in fact the two final chapters of the book, regarding personal identity.
"Each of us, by virtue of our pattern of myths, participates in these archetypes; they are the structure of human existence. It is not necessary to be a scholar to be influenced by them; it is only necessary that one existentially participate in human life." Rollo May, The Cry For Myth
"I believe in metaphors. Metaphors are real. That is why the Scriptures are composed not only of the proverbs and prophecies that Pastor McCay, in the pages that follow, spouts in involuntary reflex; but that is why those Scriptures surround and embrace those pronouncements in stories - the allegories and metaphors - that teach us our values. Here before you is a clash of good against evil, of course, but more than that. There are clashes of judgement, clashes among different interpretations of what is good and what is justice, and clashes over who is to suffer the wages of the evil born of our best intentions. This is a love story. This is a story of hatred and rage. This is the Iliad. This is the story of how we - we ourselves; you and I - choose to use whatever special powers and abilities we have, when even those powers and abilities are only a little bit beyond those of mortal men." Elliott S. Maggin, in the introduction to the graphic novel Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross
Then these two:
"Myths are archetypal patterns in human consciousness, as Joseph Campbell and others have pointed out." The Cry For Myth, Rollo May
"It was the early 1970s and young Hilmar was searching for meaning. By chance, he met Joseph Campbell, the great scholar of myths." The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner
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