touchstone quotations: Matt Berry, Chris Case and Allison M. Gibson on Compassion

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Matt Berry, Chris Case and Allison M. Gibson on Compassion

There's always someone suffering worse than you... doesn't mean your pain doesn't count.

(A dinner guest at a homeless shelter who looked a lot like Santa (Victor Raider-Wexler) to a lonely Reba (Reba McIntire).)

Reba, Cookies for Santa, 2002
Script by Matt Berry, Chris Case and Allison M. Gibson
Twentieth Century Fox Television

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013