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Created on 2004-10-12 19:44:38 (#4814824), last updated 2009-08-07
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Basic Info| Name: | Amy |
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| Birthdate: | 1983-08-07 |
| Location: | Phoenix, Arizona, United States |
| Website: | http://www.myspace.com/aaeichsteadt |
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a.a.eichsteadt@gmail.com BioAnarchist librarian, visual artist, writer and Zen Buddhist living in Phoenix, AZ, with a monk and two cats.
My DailyLit
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
"It seems to me like I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, the notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live as we dream—alone..."
—Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. ... The passage of the mythological hero may be over-ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward - into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world. ... [Now] it appears that the perilous journey was a labor not of attainment but of reattainment, not discovery but rediscovery. The godly powers sought and dangerously won are revealed to have been within the heart of the hero all the time."
-Joseph Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces
My DailyLit
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
"It seems to me like I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, the notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live as we dream—alone..."
—Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. ... The passage of the mythological hero may be over-ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward - into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world. ... [Now] it appears that the perilous journey was a labor not of attainment but of reattainment, not discovery but rediscovery. The godly powers sought and dangerously won are revealed to have been within the heart of the hero all the time."
-Joseph Campbell, Hero With a Thousand Faces
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