Beyond the hero

The aim of individuation requires that one should find and learn to live out of one’s own centre, in control of one’s for and against.*
Joseph Campbell

Meaning is centred in love: love for your projects, our world, our communities, and our families. We’ve got to find something that pulls us out of ourselves.**
Donald Miller

The first part of the necessary journey can be
exhilarating:
Growing to know our own mind and heart,
Making decisions for ourselves,
Becoming a separate person.

Then, on discovering this not to be the
destination, but a part of the journey,
We are not sustained
and we must begin to find each other, to
help and serve each other –
Thus the hero becomes the guide, and:
The main characteristic of a guide is that
they help the hero win.**

So begins our day.

*Joseph Campbell’s Myths To Live By;
**Donald Miller’s Hero On a Mission.

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