"Maybe it is partly our ordinariness that makes humans magnificent. We persist, in spite of the daunting sameness of our days, in spite of a dull repetitiveness that might shape our lives – we persist in finding shards of beauty, and we persist in seeking out the experience of feeling something larger than ourselves, in something transcendent.
I like what Joseph Campbell has to say in Thou Art That about one possible path toward this:
“How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually.”
Transcendence - On Reading Poetry
http://transactionswithbeauty.com/home/5nhhwzyet5pnkp93lsn7wdp56r86ek
I like what Joseph Campbell has to say in Thou Art That about one possible path toward this:
“How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually.”
Transcendence - On Reading Poetry
http://transactionswithbeauty.com/home/5nhhwzyet5pnkp93lsn7wdp56r86ek
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