June 10, 2010
- Jospeh Campbell on True Heroism -
The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. “Live,” Nietzsche says, “as though the day were here.” It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal—carries the cross of the redeemer—not in the bright moments of his tribe’s great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
(via here)
That sounds about right…
Comment by Ted — June 13, 2010 @ 10:35 pm
Yeah, definitely. Nietzche and Zen Buddhism, who’dve thought? :)
(In Zen, there’s a big emphasis on the fact that taking the zazen and meditating IS enlightenment. The point, of course, is to actually experience that so as to understand it, but still…)
Comment by Ian — June 14, 2010 @ 10:10 am
It is a good quote. Neitzsche and the Passion, who’d'a thunk that? :)
The day IS here, of course. ‘The Kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it…’
Comment by speedbird — June 14, 2010 @ 4:07 pm
HA! Christ and Anti-Christ, no disagreements. Love it. :)
Comment by Ian — June 15, 2010 @ 8:26 am
The way I look at it Jesus was an outlaw.
Comment by Ted — June 15, 2010 @ 6:55 pm
Transcend and include, transcend and include.
Can’t do it without going outside of the way things “are”.
Comment by Ian — June 15, 2010 @ 7:00 pm