"The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come." ~ Joseph Campbell from A Joseph Campbell Companion
Nietzsche made a brilliant comment on this as well: "Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit."
We MUST shed our old selves to transform into the new.
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How's your skin? Need to shed a bit, my friend?
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And, while we're on the subject of death and re-birth, how about this:
"If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion." ~ Joseph Campbell from A Joseph Campbell Companion
That. Is. Powerful. A snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion.
QUIT HOLDING ON TO YOUR OLD IDENTITY.
You know you need to change. So, change.
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More Campbell mojo:
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
"The hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed."
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