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11. “How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Death, Nature, Philosophy, Life Cycle, Human Experience
27. “Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.” Joseph Campbell Ouroboros, Life Cycle, Death, Giving, Transformation, Continuity
28. “Now, one of the main problems of mythology is reconciling the mind to this brutal precondition of all life, which lives by the killing and eating of lives. You don’t kid yourself by eating only vegetables, either, for they, too, are alive. So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives, and the reconciliation of the human mind and sensibilities to that fundamental fact.” Joseph Campbell Mythology Ethics, Life Cycle, Eating Lives, Acceptance, Philosophy, Brutality
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11. “How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!”
Arthur Conan Doyle Death, Nature, Philosophy, Life Cycle, Human Experience
27. “Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.”
Joseph Campbell Ouroboros, Life Cycle, Death, Giving, Transformation, Continuity
28. “Now, one of the main problems of mythology is reconciling the mind to this brutal precondition of all life, which lives by the killing and eating of lives. You don’t kid yourself by eating only vegetables, either, for they, too, are alive. So the essence of life is this eating of itself! Life lives on lives, and the reconciliation of the human mind and sensibilities to that fundamental fact.”
Joseph Campbell Mythology Ethics, Life Cycle, Eating Lives, Acceptance, Philosophy, Brutality
