I am bigger than this. And may I be helped to grow to my full size. … I am not concerned with what we like. I am concerned with our power to grasp, to comprehend, to penetrate, and to embrace.*
M. C. Richards

Thus, in the journey of transformation, we participate in these symbolic dramas and actively engage in archetypal existence. We form a powerful sense of identity with the archetypal character, and this mythic being becomes an aspect of ourselves writ large.**
Jean Houston

If we are not as big as we can be,
It’s likely that you and me
know what is stunting our growth,
What we must turn away from, give up, lay down,
Sacrifice.

Beneath the ordinary of our lives
lies the unexplored mythic,
Some greater story –
Perhaps from the past, the now,
Or calling us from an imagined future –
Directing us through
some transformation to
a bigger life.

*M. C. Richards’ Centering;
**Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life.