“We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars”-– Jack Gilbert from “Tear it Down” This episode revolves around a Hindu story, “The King and the Corpse,” about a king who spends a long night with a talking corpse … Continued
“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yea’ to it all.”— Joseph Campbell How … Continued
The Grimm fairy tale “The Goose Girl at the Well” is not a holiday story and yet, the symbolic language of transformation and value, of what truly matters in a good life, speak to the concerns and longings of December. Like many fairy tales, characters in this story undergo transformation through encounters with enigmatic forces that reveal deeper truths.