iambarr | May 14, 2009
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those other constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back. -Joseph Cambell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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iambarr | March 22, 2009
Of Eros: “Eros makes his home in men’s hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks [...]
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