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“It’s whether you’re going to say “no” to the serpent or “yes” to the serpent — easy as that.”
“‘No’ to? The adventure?”
“The adventure of being alive. Of living.”
— Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth | Episode 1: ‘The Hero’s Adventure”
The fear of Reality is the beginning of wisdom —
“you never know what you’re gonna get.”1
Eden is a box of chocolates.
And the gardeners have a law to break.
(At the end of the day, nothing more than an
invitation into grace.)
We were never given a choice
so much as an inevitability2.
Integrate.
This is not an old story
about someone else’s life.
It is not about why.
This is your life.
You left the garden, too, didn’t you?
Umbilical until
the first adventure3,
and then cut into two,
where desperate men lament
that there is no way back
into their mother’s womb.
This is the way that life is.4
We Everyman take a bite,
die, shed our skin, move.
Where is She5 taking you?
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Forrest Gump, a guy
Paul, a different guy. “Apart from the law, sin is dead.”
O’Donohue, John (a different guy). (2022, Jan 18.) What is Beauty? (w/ John O’Donohue). [Video.] YouTube.
Hart, David Bentley (another, different guy). 2013. The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. New Haven ; London, Yale University Press. “Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
Wisdom, a gal