Ancient Quote by Phil Cousineau Download Open image “True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.” — Phil Cousineau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Modern Myth Stop time Storytelling Time
“My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river. It doesn't flow away and pour itself out, done and gone. It simply… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“derives from the 14th-century word Old French aleurer, to attract, captivate, and more exotically, to train a falcon to hunt. The roots are à,… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us to get… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
“the startling line in J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, where Captain Hook is described: “The man isn’t wholly evil; he has a thesaurus in… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image