We must be willing to get rid the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one c… - Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

#hero1. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The myths and folktales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to be one's own interest. The future is regarded not in terms of an unremitting series of deaths and births, but as though one's own present system of ideals, virtues, goals, and advantages were to be fixed and made secure.

The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life. I think ritual is terribly important.