The Myth Rider

We begin because we wish to experience the beginning.

As we take our first cautious steps, we know the moment is right, and we savor it for what it is and have no complaints for what it is not.

We will not reach the end of this journey until we are ready to experience the ending. Between now and then, we will experience the quest with sunlight in our eyes.

This is the way of the universe.

February 2009 - Kabbalists tell us that we will have more of what we desire if we focus on fixing within our selves everything that's keeping us from having it than if we try to directly obtain it.

January 2009 - Money is energy even though most people continue to see it as physical pieces of paper to be collected and hoarded one way or another. Yet paper is finite and energy has no end.

December 2008 - The magic of the season remains with those of us who believe.

November 2008 - Family members spin off into their own worlds where seasons and customs are so different that communications are difficult until Thanksgiving brings us back into the same orbit again.

October 2008 - Money becomes our focus as banks run out of it and stocks decline. Is there really less abundance than there was months ago or are we just looking where it isn't?

September 2008 - So many messages, but how to send them when all the lines are busy. That is the writer's challenge and part of his myth.

August 2008 - When I tell people there has been a death in the family (one of my nephews), they don't know what to say. They need not worry. The words don't matter as much as the intention.

July 2008 - The July 4th fireworks at remind us that there's more to a holiday than a chance to get in some extra shopping.

June 2008 - The summer heat wave reminds us that water is a treasure.

May 2008 - Memorial Day offers us a chance to remember, but all to often we only recall more items for your shopping lists.

April 2008 - On All Fools Day, one hopes he is part of this sublime group!

March 2008 - musing: Ah, it's time for pollen again. Even the cats are noticing it and the don't need a calendar or daylight savings time to witness the circle of the year.

February 2008 - musing: There are times when I wonder if those of us who maintain weblogs are confusing writing about something with actually doing something.

January 2008 - musing: In north Georgia where the drought has been severe, we begin the new year wondering about water. Will there be any?

December 2007 musings: Solstice and darkness lit here and there by warm fires and candles, a time of waiting and watching over the seeds that will bring us our dreams.

Photo of the Tuckaseegee River, Dillsboro, NC, by Barry Campbell

"If you want the whole thing,
the gods will give it to you.
But you must be ready for it."
--Joseph Campbell

"The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another, when we are there in the most attentive or caring way. This simple and profound intimacy is the love that we all long for. These moments of touching and being touched can become a foundation for a path with heart, and they take place in the most immediate and direct way. Mother Teresa put it like this: "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
- Jack Kornfield

"When man solves the mystery of imagining, he will have discovered the secret of causation, and that is: Imagining creates reality. Therefore, the man who is aware of what he is imagining knows what he is creating; realizes more and more that the drama of life is imaginal - not physical. All activity is at bottom imaginal. An awakened Imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable."
Neville Goddard in "The Law and the Promise"

"There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this 'something' as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation. This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am."
--James Hillman

"The nature of life is to contain both chaos and order."
--Deepak Chopra

"The warrior never picks fruit while it is still green."
--Paulo Coelho

"The people that appeal to me are forever discovering new layers of possibility. Their larger adventures are often within. After all, our rich inner lives are what we have to show for how we have invested our energies over the years. Whatever we might accomplish in practical terms is modest, compared with the marvels within. It is as if a life is the task of building an interior castle of ideas, feelings, experiences, and dreams."
--Jonathan Young

"The degree of fulfillment you enjoy at any given point in time depends on the strength of your connection to the Creator--and you yourself are responsible for that connection."
--Michael Berg

"Small hills don't make good mountain climbers."
--Grandfather Elliott in "The Sun Singer"

"We each have a spiritual current that runs through our lives-a river. Connected to that current, our work, our life, has power. I constantly ask myself: What is my relationship to that current? Am I letting it guide me or am I forcing my will upon my life?"
--Roderick MacIver, "Heron Dance" issue 13

"I did not know I was on a search for a passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life, in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to touch those depths; to know that our lives are sacred; that our hearts are truly capable of love. It is a yearning to be all that we can be. A longing for what is real."
--Anne Hillman

(Photo: "Storm over Glacier," by Malcolm R. Campbell, copyright (c) 1964.)