Old Age: Journey Into SimplicityIn Speech of the Grail, storyteller and ceremonialist Linda Sussman explores a new way to speak, one that heals and transforms. She takes for her guide Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic tale of the Grail, showing how it depicts a path of initiation toward healing speech--to "doing the truth" in word and action. "The Grail! The word stirs a deep response in the Western imagination. Joseph Campbell called the medieval stories where it is first mentioned 'the founding myth of Western civilization,' because 'according to this mythology, there is no fixed law, no established knowledge of god, set up by prophets or priests, that can stand against the revelation of a life lived with integrity in the spirit of its own brave truth.' Campbell and many other scholars, artists, and seekers have seen the Western wisdom path disclosed in the image of each knight entering the forest where no one else has made a path. The quest is to recover the elusive Grail, thereby returning its sustenance to the world. The presence of the Grail nurtures an invisible web of relationships that connect individual destiny to service of others and to the earth, thereby granting meaning" (Linda Sussman, from her introduction).Sussman begins with a beautiful retelling of the story, allowing readers to inwardly reproduce the potent inner images of the text. Then she shows that it is not so much a path toward perfection as a recovery of the proper relationship with our own imperfections. She shows, too, that it is a path in which male and female aspects work together to overcome evil. |
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Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. Old Age JOURNEY INTO SIMPLICITY Helen M. Luke OLD AGE Journey into Simplicity HELEN M. LUKE Foreword by. Front Cover.
Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. Old Age JOURNEY INTO SIMPLICITY Helen M. Luke OLD AGE Journey into Simplicity HELEN M. LUKE Foreword by. Front Cover.
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Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. Lindisfarne Books 610 Main Street, Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 www.lindisfarne.com Copyright © 2010, Apple Farm Community Originally published by Parabola Books, Copyright © 1987, Helen M. Luke The ...
Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. Lindisfarne Books 610 Main Street, Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 www.lindisfarne.com Copyright © 2010, Apple Farm Community Originally published by Parabola Books, Copyright © 1987, Helen M. Luke The ...
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Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. FOREWORD INTRODUCTION THE ODYSSEY KING LEAR THE TEMPEST LITTLE GIDDING SUFFERING This edition of Helen Luke's Old Age owes its new.
Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. FOREWORD INTRODUCTION THE ODYSSEY KING LEAR THE TEMPEST LITTLE GIDDING SUFFERING This edition of Helen Luke's Old Age owes its new.
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Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. This. edition of Helen Luke's Old Age owes its new life to a number of people who deserve recognition for their devotion to Helen and her works. Helen's writings themselves grew out of gatherings in ...
Journey Into Simplicity Helen Luke. This. edition of Helen Luke's Old Age owes its new life to a number of people who deserve recognition for their devotion to Helen and her works. Helen's writings themselves grew out of gatherings in ...
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... Helen Luke's remarkable book on old age is that she avoids getting caught up in all the usual worries and sentimentalities. She sees age as a mystery and quite rightly hangs all her thoughts about it on images from literature. And not ...
... Helen Luke's remarkable book on old age is that she avoids getting caught up in all the usual worries and sentimentalities. She sees age as a mystery and quite rightly hangs all her thoughts about it on images from literature. And not ...
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