"If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them."

Myth, Meaning, Psychology, Life

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"If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them."

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"You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life."

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"The ego hates losing ' even to God."

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